The Dread Pirate Roberts re-surfaces!!! I did the 5th race in the 6-race series that I am doing (I skipped the last one because of my foot). This one was an 8-miler. Wore my pirate suit again. I am still gradually returning to running, so I didn't race this, but instead wanted to start out at around 7:00 and work my way down to 6:00 or so by the end. I started out too fast at 6:30, so I decided to just keep that pace. I caught up to a guy at mile 4 when we were running straight into the wind and let him draft off me, then paced him in to the finish. Good hard effort, but nothing too strenuous. It was pretty cold and very windy with lots of large lake-effect snowflakes blowing all around; it was quite beautiful actually.
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