Time/Position: 29.27 (29th from 385 [1st V55])
One of the oldest races in the wider region, although I last did it 15 years ago. A strange race tonight: I felt good and was recording fast 5.40 miles throughout the race, but there was a disconnect between what my watch was telling me and what the mile markers were saying. I usually race on instinct but this was unsettling as my Garmin tends to undermeasure everything, especially short races. I paced it well: one fast short lap is followed by three long ones. I consciously eased off for the middle long lap but otherwise kept a good pace ticking over despite the somewhat disappointing result, which does lead me to wonder whether the race was a little long. Still, it was at least a reasonable V55 5 mile time to go along with my reasonable 5k and 10k times, albeit about 30 seconds slower than I had hoped to run and at least a minute slower than my Garmin suggested I was running!
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