Master runner

Met Roger, Courtney and Blake at MC-D's at 6 and we drove on up to T-town. We got our warm up and stretches done and headed to the starting line, where we saw Scott Smith and he informed us that they were planning on starting the masters race 2 minutes before the actual open race, to our suprise we did line up and take off 2 minutes early...Would have been nice if they would have mentioned this in a e-mail / starting instructions or something. 

My race plan was pretty simple... run better than i did last yr.. I took off and no one hopped out front so i just took off and used the down hill to my advantage. It felt weird not having anyone in front of me at a race that big. I was quickly swallowed up by the huge kenyan pack and one white boy AKA Scott Smith at the 5k mark, my watch was off (probably because of the buildings) and i didn't have a clue as to what my time i was running till the 5k. the clock showed 14:28ish as they went through and i was right on with my 5k PR 16:30. 

After the pack went by me I had 2 Master runners go by just before the turn around they were both in my age group.. when we turn around we had some wind to our back and i closed the gap on one of the masters but he caught a second wind and I ran solo all the way up to the hill where the open woman runner caught me and we ran most of the way up the hill together and she dropped the hammer on me. I did get 3rd place money overall (200 bones) and PR'ed at every distance 5k-15km. I was pleased with my race today but left room for improvement for sure.