Notes
Not for sure on this. they keep on changing the direction and "distance" on this race every year. However, it is a LOOP. We start on one side of the lake go around and finish where we started. So it should matter which direction we go. So last year I called it 4 miles but this year ran the other way around and there was no way it was 4 miles. I ran 16 seconds faster this year than last, so I picked a distance than went with my pace for the first 3 miles. Confusing. So guy at the line told me he was going to win. I ignored him and when the guy went off I took off. Huge headwind for the first half. I went hard but had no idea the pace with the wind. I hit the mile at 5:12 clearly in the lead. Another half mile and I got out of the wind and opened up my stride and took it a hard comfortable. I was still pushing but tried not to force it and stay smooth. I hit 2 miles at 10:26. Then went up a large hill to get to mile 3 at 15:45. The hill cost me a few seconds. I guessed 3 miles was accurate. It felt like I was going 5:15's. But the last ".75" took forever. I kept picking up the pace, looking at my watch but couldn't get under 20 minutes. I knew the course record was 20:11 and I missed that too. I have no idea how far I race but it was the same as last year but a different way in worse wind and my time was faster. I won by almost a minute. I feel like I can run 5:15's with ease, or at least easier than in the past.