Swiss Days 5K, 17:29 and 5th overall. I started off with about 1.5 miles of warm-up, still could have used a little more, it was kind of chilly. The start of my race was pretty good, but it was a faster pace than I was used to at the start, anyway I still got out pretty good ran the following first mile-5:57 first mile had a few hills and some turns, after about half a mile I was in 7th place running with Hayden Hawks a sophomore from my team, dropped him before the 1st mile marker and focused on another high school runner from Pineview. Also ahead of me were Brandon Wignall, David Holt, Mike Schramm, and Logan Fielding, 2 mile- 5:32 shortly after the 1 mile mark I passed the Pineview runner then turned up into Santa Clara Heights, Steve Hooper was close on my tail and we kept pushing each other through the second and third mile all the way to the finish. 3 mile and the .1 to the finish- 6:00 I had to keep surging on Steve, as he ran a really good race, finished just ahead of him and Bill wasn't too far back. Overall, I was pretty pleased with my time. I hadn't ran a 5K in quite some time, I think the last one was back when I was coaching in Colorado and I ran something around 19:27, so this showed the improvement I have been able to make over the last year. Interesting a year ago I was getting ready to have my ankle surgery, glad things are going much better this year. After the race we (Steve, Bill, Logan, and Holt) went up and ran the marathon course down from Snow Canyon Entrance to the finish at the park 10.5 miles. I was thinking we would take it pretty easy, but we came down as a group at a pretty good pace. 1-7:01 2-13:07 3-6:30 4-6:32 5-6:36 6-6:18 After mile 6 I didn't have anymore road markers to time my splits so we were going off of Holt's Garmin Miles 7,8, and 9 we were hitting around 5:45, and the last mile was under 5:40 Total run was just over 67 minutes. | 