Sorry for no race report on Saturday, but I only had my iPad and for some reason I can fill in everything above but it won't let me write a report? I really didn't think that I would PR in this race from last year, because of the bad year that I had last year and then just coming back into running again in late December. My goal was to beat my time from last year but I really wanted to be under 1:05:00. The race started on time and I knew that Melody and one other guy would be the fastest people out and I was right. Ken ended up winning the mens and Melody won the womens and beat me by 1:30 min. She is running very strong right now. The race starts out with the 5 mile group and the 10 mile group so you really don't know what place you are in until the 2.5 mile mark. After the 5 mile turn around I was 3 male with Melody ahead of me as well. I had 2-3 guys close behind me but I just kept the pace nice and steady. I was gaining on the number 2 guy and thought that maybe by the turn around I could catch him. The number one guy was 3 minutes ahead of me and Melody was still hauling butt. I took my GU at mile 4.5 grabbed a drink at the turn around and then passed the number 2 guy. HE was having a hard time breathing is what he said. I never looked back until mile 9 where you run that last long mile along the Dam. I surprised myself at how fast my splits were on the second 5 miles. Finished the race cooled down with Ken and his wife and then grabbed my $15 and headed back to the house. The weather was perfect and I am so excited for this year. splits 6:40 6:38 6:37 6:37 6:30 6:27 6:20 6:18 6:12 6:07 | 