Just do it

Good race for sure!  At the start we were in a pack of about 6 staying together for the first mile.  I decided to pull ahead at that point and 2 dudes stayed with me.  Unfortunately I didn't have enough gas in the tank to hold that pace and fell off a bit.  The leader then pulled ahead and I couldn't catch him.  We all ended up finishing within about 12 seconds of each other.  

This actually wasn't a race.  It was a base fun run but around here you take any chance you get to run fast with some competition.  There was some dudes running fast so it worked.  It wasn't fun though.  The first couple of miles were alright but the last mile hurt like a mother beast.  It was a mandatory event so there were hundreds of runners

1 mile warm-up and cool-down.  8x200 intervals with 200 jog in between each.

Won me some turkey today!  So did Rebecca!  There was a decent amount of people today.  The weather was also good.  As we went out there were a couple who were out in front. I stuck behind one guy for about a quarter mile and he was already falling off pace so I passed and kept about a 50 meter gap behind the lead guy.  He was a cross country runner so I figured I would see what happened.  I didn't want to kill myself.

 Nothing much happened throughout the race but I slowly closed the gap for almost 2 miles.  Coming up on the last half mile I was right behind the lead and I passed him moving pretty quick.  I kept my pace up and developed a good 20 second lead on him by the finish so I figured my tactics worked well.  This was my fourth turkey trot... FIRST TIME I WON A TURKEY!  WOOP!

Ended up being an AP of 5:47... 5:47, 5:55, 5:44, 32