I run therefore, I am!

Ran with Danielle this morning and it was chilly and a bit windy. Talked about a few races she is over and may use me to help get them done. Fun early morning run.

I went to the start of this chilly race and it had a late start at 10 am.  It started snowing with a wind blowing to the east. I did a warm up and found it to actually be nice in one direction and horrible coming back.  My strategy for this race was to take it easy with a slower start. But after talking to Scott I decided to go out a bit stronger and battle the headwind back and hope to have someone break my wind.  This race was the first on the USATFLDR (USA Track and Field Long Distant Running) Circuit.  I could score some points with this race. The course record on it was 33:41 set by Dennis Simonitis.  I actually felt like I could break this record today.  I did a 16:50 two weeks ago and if I could keep this same pace, id have it really close.  The race started with it snowing but a great tail wind.  I felt like the pace was a lot slower than two weeks ago so I stayed with Jake and Rylee and a few others.  Matt came up on me at mile 1 and I did a 5:11 first mile.  My second mile was 5:19. I was in 7th overall and felt really good. I got to mile 3 with a 5:23. I was at 16:23 at the turn around. If the wind wasnt ruthless I know for a fact I couldve had 33:41. As I got to the turn around I passed a high schooler and  at the turn I had a look back for the first time and saw Scott and Fritz right behind me. As I started the head wind I felt the wind get sucked out of my sails.  I made it about a quarter mile and Fritz and Scott immediately came in front of me and Scott broke the ruthless wind for me.  He told me we could work together and we were in single file and the person in the back would run to the front and run as long as it took the person in the back to recover enough.  I was amazed to see how doing this got us closer and closer to the main group! But it was short lived.  I only made it about a half mile and bonked.  They kept it up and I noticed after the next mile they even broke up the line.  I came in close to the finish and was upset when I saw 34:25 about 150 yards away.  It was a crappy last 3.1 but I ended up with a Masters win and $75.00 for my troubles. :)  And I love how anal I have to be to put an exact to the damn millionth of a mile this 10k is so it will register.  Why if you have to go to the extreme to be exact on a course mile in a 10k race can you not just make a button for Kilometers. Der Der DEr