It was a beautiful moring for a race. Nice and cool. The garmins battery died so I didnt have that to help keep me on pace. Steve O said he was going for 36-37 so I figured I would just hang around him and Id be ok. That stratagy was thrown out the window about 10 steps into the run. There was no way I was going to keep that kind of pace for the whole run so I just tried to keep within eye sight of Steve and the other guy and hoped for the best. There was a long old hill right in the middle of the race and man did that take some mental jucie to make up. Passed a home with several dogs out front and got a bit concerned but after seeing the first 2 guys make it by without injury I figured I was ok. If they would have wanted me I couldnt have stopped them. Tried to get closer to number 2 guy on the downhill and the last couple miles but he had more go and I was huffing and puffing like I'd just smoked a pack. I was hoping for a lot better time than this but even Steve O was off by a couple minutes so I wont kick myself to hard. Bit disscuraging as my marathon goal pace is faster than this race pace and I dont know if Im up for 26 miles at that speed. | 