Girl Power!

First, a big congrats to Bev for beating me by 10 seconds this morning in the NYRR 50th Anniversay Run. The weather was pretty crappy, but the race was good.

Secondly, a big thanks to Bev. I doubt I would have run as fast as I did without the competition.

Mile 4 was the tough one for me. My splits were:

Mile 1: 6:36
Mile 2: 6:44
Mile 3: 6:42
Mile 4: 6:57 (ouch)
Mile 5: 6:44


We started out at a pretty quick pace. I felt good coming up cat hill, but I definitely felt like I was losing some steam as I neared the end of mile 3. As I worked up the hills through mile 4, I started feeling really bad and told Bev to not hold back on my account. She started pulling a little farther ahead at that point. I eventually started feeling good again and clocked that last mile back down where it should have been. All-in-all, a good race. I was just hoping to run a sub-35 time and ended up with a 33:44, so I'm quite happy with my pace and results from my first 5 mile race.

Next up, Need for Speed Relay on Sunday.