Long (5.1 km) sprint-like course on Gene's newest map - Four Lawrence Parks.
Running felt difficult, but it was a lot of fun to run on a new map. The weather was relatively comfortable.
Scott N. beat me by a bit over 30 seconds. I'll have to check the winsplits, but my guess is most of that was on the longer road legs (11, 12 and 14).
We had a pretty good turnout (something like 28 starts). To put that into context, the equivalent portion of the metro population for Seattle would be 886 people.
After the run, we had a small potluck as a going-away for Grover and Carolyn (moving to Tuscon in a few weeks). That helped bring out a few old timers. The Gogols were in attendance, but I didn't get a chance to chat with them. I think they must have been on a schedule or something and
We also had some good help from Kjrsten and Cory at registration and Nathan was a big help with control pick up (I'm probably missing some other people who helped with control pick up).
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