This morning I ran a 5K race in Winchester, TN. Did not know if we would even run today. When woke up it was pouring down rain. That was not stopping this race.
The race was ran on a good course. The course had some good hills on it. It was an out and back through a neighborhood. Couple places had standing water due to the amount of rain through the night.
There was not many people at this race. Think lot of it due to weather. So as I looked around this morning before start, I decided I was going to go out fast a strong and try to win this race. I started out pretty good, was under 6 min pace for the first half mile, then dropped as we approached the hills. First mile was 6:38. At that point glanced back and had 1 person about 1/10 of mile or so behind me, but by time we came out of climbs and made a couple of turns I looked back again and it was just me and the police escort. Mile 2 was slower at 6:45, but was able to pick up my pace for mile 3 was 6:32. I picked up my pace even more for the 1/10 mile sprint to the finish with the last 40 yards up hill to the finish line.
I ended up winning this race today. I finished with a new PR of 20:35. Only disappointment was that I wanted to finish at 20 min or under, but I will take it!
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