The weather was a little chilly but 10 degrees warmer than last Saturday. Warming up I felt awesome and knew I was in for a good one if I could concentrate and really push in the latter half of the race. Having some guy who I was hunting down was might motivational with regard to helping me PR.
The first mile was interesting. The horn went off out of nowhere. I turn around and there went all of the high school boys like a bat out of hell. I settled into the pace and by the first mile marker (4:58) it was just me and two guys a bit ahead of me. At the first turn around I dropped another guy big time and headed into the turny loop. The lead guy was way the hell up there (100-200 meters). Second mile was a little slower than I wanted in 10:06. I began concentrating and really gunning it. The guy ahead was slowing big time. I dug really frickin deep and went after him and almost caught him but I was out of race to run and finished a few seconds behind. It sort of bothered me but hey, I PRed and am now faster than the Pacers events standard for a comped entry to future 5Ks. Yes!!
I waited for the awards and they were like "Matt Deters in 16:10" I took my award but inside I was like "OH HELL NO, they did not just Fu*k up my time." Went to the timing group and they were able to fix the issue with my chip. I really dug deep and I'd be damned to let my time read 16:10 after working so hard to get passed that level when I clearly ran 15:42.
I'm happy with this. 32:23/15:42 for this fall ain't bad at all. Still bothers me that dude won....I got straight up mano y mano competitive with that bro...too bad we weren't running a 10K.
Very thankful for my good health and my many blessings this year.
GOBBLE GOBBLE MO^&#$ F&C(#@$!!
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