Saturday, March 30 Fast Friends

23mi*/2:30. I ran the Fast Friends 4.5mi road race, AKA Andy's Race on Saturday. I knew I'd be traveling on Easter so the plan was to get my long run today at the race. I arrived early and ran the course solo and then joined Mark for another loop. We had 7min to get on the line. We cut it close. I'd never do that at a bigger race. MacKnight and Miller took it out hard and I let them go and tucked in behind Goupil. I passed him shortly before the mile and ran solo the rest of the way. I finished in 3rd in 24:28(5:27). This was my slowest time of the 4 years at this race. I've gotten slower every year. Here are my miles: (5:18,5:27,5:23,5:31,2:46). Did I mention that this is a challenging course? 3 mile cool down with a bunch of guys and then 6 more miles with Mark after awards. Beautiful day to be outside running!