Beautiful day for a race. Approx 340 runners. My age group was 41 and over, there were coincidentally 41 men and I was 3rd. My A goal was to be near or better than last year's time of about 19:30 or very close. My C goal was sub 20 so I finished right in between. This course is on the University campus and is very challenging with equal uphill and downhill parts. This is a race that I had been doing some semi serious training, a little weekly speedwork and trying to drop a few pounds. I feel both were successful. I raced at about 145 pounds. When I'm heavier than this it seems like I can't break sub 20. It's tough getting to and maintaining this weight. I eat three meals a day and snack only on fruit. I keep a very watchful eye on my meal proportions too. I decided to let loose yesterday a pigged out on three large chocolate chip cookies! Those were sure good. | 