I started out pretty much in the last of all the runners. I got stuck in a bathroom line forever! So I was 12 minutes behind the clock and had thousands of people to pass. Overall experience was really sucky because of injury. My achilles kept going out on me. If I didn't have this problem and didn't have to stop for some bathroom stops, I might have broken 3 hours. I felt pretty good except for those 2 problems. I was also 2 weeks too old to win the Silver Shoe Award for the age group 15-18, but Dawson got it so its all good.
Times:
1. 6:12 (Just passing thousands of people)
2. 6:40
3. 6:29 (19:21)
4. 6:27
5. 6:32
6. 6:11 (38:32)
7. 6:26 (After this mile I spent like 3 mins. in bathroom)
8. 7:21
9. 6:50
10. 7:06
11. 7:31
12. 7:08
13. 6:57 (1:27:54 half way)
14. 7:02
15. 6:30
16. 6:27
17. 6:44
18. 7:29
19. 8:18 (This is where I started to have achilles problems bad)
20. 7:18 (2:17:42)
21. 8:28
22. 8:27 (I think that Coach Roberts came and helped on this mile)
23. 7:52 (2:42:30)
24. 8:23 (I really wussed out from here on)
25. 9:12 (Some dude helped me through this mile)
26. 8:15
.2. 1:18
Total: 3:15:42/7:31 mile.
My garmin says I'm a lot faster because that thing stops when I do. But add some bathr room stops, and being a wuss achilles stops and my time is right on.
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