Race morning Jake, Ean, Katie, Jennifer and myself headed out from Jakes place. We were planning on Starbucks but they were closed, so we slid into a gas station and i got a cup of coffee (Black) and a Blueberry muffin.
We got downtown about 1hr before the gun. Jake and I started shufflin a bit and hit the port. Weather was close to perfect.
We lined up and I saw a few familiar faces from OK and what seemed to be a really big 1/2 field.
My plan was to go out in low 6's and try pick it up on the back half. I was running in 5th place through mile 19 then started picking off a few runners.
About mile 17 I saw Jake out front with nobody in sight. I gave him a Yee Yee shout and kept watching for 2nd place. When I got just past 18 marker I saw 2 dudes running together about a mile ahead of me and the dude that was just ahead of me was slowly coming back and i caught and passed him somewhere around mile 20.
When I got around 3rd place dude I realized I was in the money and 2 place dude was coming back really quick. I kept thinking how cool it would be if Jake and I went 1-2.. When I got down to the finish line I was so crazy excited. I saw Jake with an American flag draped on him being interviewed. Jake won easily with a 2:29:04 and I ran a 2:38:17 new PR
Jake and I hung out at the VIP tent waiting for Ean and Katie / Jennifer
Ean ended up puking about 100m from the finish line and ended up running a 3:16:17
Had a wonderful weekend with some great friends. So Blessed.
Miles are paying off.
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