Fri- shakeout in the morning to get ready for race 2M Sat - After an inauspicious start by the mayor I found myself behind Michelle Sim. & Emily Jameson, I thought that I'd be happy to finish as fast as them so I tucked in. After the first hill Emily dropped off, probably wasn't racing. I stayed with Michelle until close to my parent's house and then just started to pass. All the T-ville track club was there & I wasn't sure I'd beat them but I was feeling good. Left Michelle behind and passed people, I was 8th at Calvin Smith thanks to a guy telling me so and I could see all my competition. Teren of course was 2 minutes ahead at that point but I passed Oregon and Monty's little bro and headed downhill to the canal sitting fifth. Hayden Santy was 75 yards ahead and I kept inching towards him. I wanted to lay off the pace a little but I saw on my watch that we were running pretty well and I caught Hayden about 1/4 mile from the ending turns. I thought he would put up somewhat of a fight but when I started my kick at the turns he didn't respond. Kicked it in and am ecstatic with my time. I thought I could probably do 19:30 but the whole race felt pretty easy. Feel like I'm getting in decent rec runner shape and maybe with some consistency can be a real runner. Ran Leah in, she was 28:45 getting used to altitude. Overall, Teren 15:35, Monty 18:30?, White on red (passed by Monty last mile) 18:47, mua 19:01.
Sun - short 15 min shakeout 2M.
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