9.5 miles total this morning: Really happy with this race. I've been wanting to go under 16 for a long time and I finally did it! I went after from the start today so it hurt early but I train for the pain so I was all in today. I was in the lead at the first mile but I could hear plenty of footsteps. Right when we passed one mile(5:03) two guys passed me and I went with them. I was feeling pretty comfortable with this position and the pace even got a touch faster for a bit. I had my watch set on km (.62) alerts and I was trying to keep everything under 3:10. We came through the two mile right around 10:07 and at that point Norberto Robles had one more gear that I didn't have. I still finished the last part at close to 5 min pace. The course was long by .07 which is a little longer than normal but that part is what it is. I came through 5k in 15:38 on my watch. My km splits were 3:05.88,3:08.53,3:04.24,3:06.81,3:12.58. The extra .07 was 17 seconds (4:23 pace). Really happy with the race but a little frustrated with the timing (right now I have a 16:20 next to my name). I ended up 2nd about 15 seconds behind 1st and the same ahead if 3rd. Allison won the women's race in about 17:20.
They have fixed the results so 15:55 was the official time. Allison was 17:20 | 