Not sure if I was ready to race today but glad I had planned on having Jay take Paula and my sister up to the start so I could not back out. We warmed up for 1.4 miles and ran into Julie, Michelle, Teena and Smooth. We started pretty fast, my first two miles were sub 7's and I was feeling great. They did not have the water station set up at the 1/2 way point and I was needing water very badly but was still feeling good. I felt great until the 5 mile mark and started to really feel the fatigue in my legs. Took a drink and walked through the water stop and then picked back up. I had been debating whether or not my lack of kick at the end is physical or mental and today it was physical. Mentally I was trying to kick the last stretch but physically the legs would not go. My splits were: 6:49 6:51 7:12 7:06 7:13 7:37 1:31 for the last .2 I am very happy with my time of 44:20. This is a PR for me and a 4 min improvement over last years DesNews 10K. I am more tired that I expected afterwards and ended up not adding on more mileage. I think all the travel the last 6 wks is taking its toll but there is no end in sight. Happy Running!
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