We got in 2.5 warmup along the road. I had to rush to the line so didn't have time to get up in the front but I was fairly close.
I didn't really have any goals for it other than be under 7:00 average. So I went out what felt a little quicker than 6:40 first mile but it was 6:08 (it's gotta be that track speed!) After the initial shock of that I slowed down because I was scared I'd completely die if I kept going that fast. Splits after that were 6:42, 6:53, 6:53, 6:55, 7:03, 6:58, 7:04, 6:57, and closed at 6:39 pace. My garmin had it a little longer than 15k (9.34 miles instead of 9.321) but that's probably because of my start and not cutting tangents like Bill always says to do, oops. I did in some places though! The wind was to our backs going out the first half and coming back we were running against it. But it wasn't that bad. Out of curiosity I checked my 10k split and it was 42:02 so not bad.
Overall I'm happy with it, did better than I was expecting and feel stronger. Now that I have some food in me I feel much better, afterwards I crashed bigtime. Luckily after the cool down though :) Which was 4.4 miles. Was the 5th woman and 1st in my age group so yayyyy.
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