Finally ran a race. It's been a while. I was trying to decide between the 10k and the 5k on the morning of. Seeing as how I have run very little and have done almost no speed work for the past year, I decided to stick to the ole 3.1. I was very glad I did. There was a running club there from Mexico that was all decked out their race gear. It looked like they were going to be pretty quick. Going out I had a hard time deciding whether to stick with them. I was afraid I might not be able to hold the pace. Fortunately they settled into a pace that I felt I could hold. I was about 10 meters back from a pack of three of them for about a half mile. There was another guy who was another 20 meters ahead of them and increasing the gap. We had a pretty good headwind so as we approached a hill I figured it would be in my best interests to cozy up behind the group. I fell in with them and got pretty comfortable actually. A couple of times they surged a bit trying to pull away but I wasn't hurting too much so I just kept with them. One dude fell off and then another. At about 2 miles I finally pulled ahead of the last guy. He was right with me until about the last half mile. I kept my speed up just enough to make a gap. I figured at that point he was hurting just as much as I was and I highly doubted he had any will-power left to close the gap. I picked up my pace for the last bit and crossed the finish line a good 20 meters ahead of him. I didn't win the race but it was probably the most fun I have had racing here in Del Rio. It feels good to race against people that your level. It pretty much just becomes a game of will power. Great race! Race people were retarded though unfortunately and didn't know how to work chip timing. Oh well... Splits: 5:51, 5:52, 5:46, 0:41 AP was 5:47 with Garmin distance of 3.14.
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