That was the wettest race I've run so far.
Fortunately the rain let up before the start, so I could get the warmup in and the pre-race standing around without getting soaked. But it wasn't soon after the start that it simply poured, and it stayed that way most of the race. By midway I wasn't bothering running around the puddles anymore.
I started with Marianne and a friend of hers, and we took the first three miles at an 8 minute mile pace. That really helped me, as I never start races that quickly and it felt good. Marianne moved ahead after 3 miles and later finished about a minute ahead of me.
My final result was 1:16:52, which was close to a 10 minute improvement over the 1:26 I did at Lazy Lobster about this time last year, and represents a 7:41 mile pace. It was a lot of fun and a very well organized race.
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