So obviously this wasn't a 10k, I am not sure why they advertised it as such, but by the time I finished I was sure glad there wasn't another mile to go! A couple of things got me on this one...1) I ran a 5 miler yesterday at a decent pace and a hill workout...by .25 miles I could tell my legs were heavy and this was going to be a bad day. 2) There were 2 large hills that I had no anticipated, it was bad. 3)A large portion of the run was on gravel rocks. That is what all the FOBs here are paved with to avoid all the dust. They lay down dump trucks full of gravel rocks. That slowed me down about a whole minute per mile pace. Yuck! Anyway, even given that I felt good about where I came in. I should have passed up one other guy but couldn't catch him on the final down hill and last 150m. His strides were longer than mine. I think I averaged a 7:46 pace, which is awful, but again the hills and gravel were a big reason for that. Oh well, I am feeling okay with my result!
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