Did just a little bit of warm-up, just wanted to feel myself out for this race. Got about 30 yds back from the start and elbowed a guy in the face, accidently. He turned out to be a great running partner, I just stayed with him through the 1st 3 miles. One of his friends had the time for the 1st mile, 6:43, I was surprised and thought it was :23, but just felt through the next miles. I kept up that same pace the whole way so that was great. When we hit the flat N Temple I was passing people, got passed by one surger who had a dark orange long sleeve shirt, he then took it off to reveal a gray shirt underneath, he was having all sorts of trouble keeping it until finally he discarded it when we were into the parade course. I passed him and said, "What are you doing wearing 2 shirts?" I had my eye on a KSOP shirt runner who had passed me at 2.5, I passed him at 4.5. Was slowly eating runners up, did get passed by a couple of serious girls in pink, and couldn't quite get a girl and and Asian high school guy who were ahead, the girl did a long surge, the guy sprinted ahead of me but I passed a few in the closing stretches and was very happy with my result. Used Marky's registration just so you know. This is good motivation for continuing to get in shape and some races, I really haven't been a runner for a while, just a b-ball, softball, frisbee golf guy. | 