Nasty day for a race, half inch of slushy ice on the roadat the start. I wassure somebody was going to die at the starting line, and it felt really hard to accelerate. But I guess it wasn't because I went out at the customary 4:30 pace and kept it under 5 for the first four tenths, until it flattened out. Even with the hill in the second half mile I still got a 5:12 thanks to Carl pulling me up behind him. I got a little overtired and he started to slip ahead, but he's awesome and I was still in front of most of the track team. At the second turn I was totally lost and it was a good thing Carl was still there or I would have gone off into who knows where. I am too busy trying to run my best to figure out where the course goes you know :) Unfortunately it was another flat to uphill bit so I had to dig again and he got way ahead. I was still in a little debt going around the corner to the final downhill at mile 1.7, so three guys who were chasing me got past. We maintained that order to the end, slipping and sliding around the final corner (had to stop almost) and when I saw that 16:12 on the clock as I came around the corner I was quite pleased, considering the ice and the fact that my flat 5k record is 17:32. Don't know how to count this one. Ran another 2.5 slow to kill time before the awards. I blasted the Masters. Does that make me Master Blaster?
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