I took Nick and Melissa to the 3rd annual Gary Millen memorial 5k today. After running around yesterday at Coe-Brown's Black Bear Invitational with the high school team, giving splits and cheering on the Kennett kids, I was a bit fatigued. I planned to try to run with Nick, maybe picking it up if I was feeling good in the last mile. The pouring rain didn't encourage fast times, either.
We started out at 5:51, which was a bit quick for Nick (who was going for 6:00 per mile pace) and a bit slow for me to stay with the leaders, but overall a good split. I went 6:13 for the second mile. I never understand why on this course, where the second mile is down hill, that this is the slowest mile, but it seems to be the case every year. I left Nick in mile 3 and ran 5:41, but it was not enough to catch the leaders, including race winner Steve Piotrow (17:55) and long time racing companion Jasmin Lepir (18:13). I finished in 18:18, which is my season's best (naturally, as it's my first race), and Nick finished next at 18:54, which is his PR (prior best was this race last year, at 19:41). Melissa hit her best too at 24:21. The three of us won age division awards.
There is another 5k coming up in two weeks at Whitaker Woods, and the kids have their home X-C invitationals this week, so much more to come!
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Darin
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