Today was the sugar mill 10 mile. There are only 3 races on Kauai a year so I of course get excited for all of them and pick up the training for the races. I wasn't able to train as much as I would have liked, but it was sufficient. So my goal was sub 1 hour or 6 minute miles. At mile 4 I was like 23:30 so on pace and way ahead of everyone. There was supposed to be a race helper person at the turnaround point telling everyone to turn around. Well, he wasn't there when I got to the turn around so I ran approx an extra 1.3 miles in around 8 minutes. So my race was really 11.3 miles. The road ended so I turned around and on the way back the race helper guy was there who I yelled at (I could have been a little nicer but that screwed up 1 of only 3 races on this island!). It turns out I was the only one that ran the extra distance. I got focused again and just started picking off people and found out with 2 miles to go there was only 2 people ahead. I passed #2 and with about 250m to go was close to #1. I tried to sprint but almost puked so I had to slow down a little. The #1 guy slowed down too which made it even easier to sprint by him with 100m to go. So I'm happy I still won and got a gift certificate for gas. I'm dissapointed I don't know my actual time but oh well. 11.3 miles in 1:09 would probably mean I would have been under my 1 hour goal.
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