Great race today. Warmed up with Julie C and Christi from the blog. It was good to meet Julie for the first time. She is full of energy (as you can tell from her blog). Loved it! Felt good this morning, but knew the speed was certainly not going to be where I wanted it today, but felt good overall for the race. Planned on being anywhere from 6:05-6:20 pace depending on how I felt today, ended up averaging 6:15. Splits were 6:08, 6:15, 6:20, 6:04ish...didn't stop the watch quite on time, but makes sense for the overall time.Plan was to take it easy the first two miles then push the last two. The third mile seemed slight uphill, last mile seemed slight down for part of it. I tried to hold back and not burn out early. I felt good the entire race and didn't feel like I could have pushed harder, but didn't feel burned out either.Really tried to push that last mile and felt good coming in. Placed 5th overall. Turkeys were given to top five and pretty much everyone else it seemed;) Nice run. Cooled down with Christi and Devra, the winner. Turns out she won St George a few years ago and ran a 2:34 or something like that. Christi and I also ran part of our cool down with Melody (runningwithbabies) from the blog...so fast and so cool too! Love the FRB family:) Stiff competition today, more than years past. Almost talked myself out of running this race about a million times this week, but so glad I did it! Happy Thanksgiving! | 
