Almost my entire family ran in the Murray Fun Days 5K today. Dad, Mom, Benjamin, Jenny, Nate(Jenny's husband), Julia, JoJo, Me, William, Stevie, MoMo, MiMi, and Bella(only 4 years old!) all ran. It was pretty hot at the start. Maybe 80º. I started out conservatively. The pace for the first mile felt pretty easy. I had 5:46 at one mile. That was too slow, so I sped up to about 5:30 pace. I saw Cole in the distance so I was trying to catch him. He started out with his Dad and had about 5:14 at one mile. At two miles I had 11:14(5:28 mile split). I passed Cole a little later. But as soon as I passed him, he passed me back. I got really tired after that and slowed down a lot. I think I lost motivation when Cole passed me and started gapping me. I ran pretty slow until about 1K to go. I thought maybe I could still outkick Cole. I got pretty close to him but didn't kick quite fast enough. At three miles I had 17:10. My total time was 17:42. I got 5th overall, 2nd in my age division. Cole was a bit ahead with 17:38. He's way faster than me in the mile. Last week he ran 4:36. That's faster than my 1500! I was only 4 seconds behind him so his endurance is not super great. 17:42 is a good time for the conditions. I'm happy with it. Benjamin won the race, I think he ran under 15:40. JoJo had a pretty hard time, he ran somewhere around 18:00. William ran 20:22. MoMo ran 20:50. Stevie's foot really hurt, he could only manage 25:00. Nate ran pretty well. He got 23:31 I think. Jenny has been injured for a while, so she hasn't run three miles straight for a month or so. She ran about 24:30. This is MiMi and Bella's first official 5K. MiMi ran around 27:30, and Bella ran 32:00 I think. Mom and Julia paced Bella and MiMi. Dad paced MoMo for the first mile and then sped up. I'm not sure what time he got.
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