Cold or rather warm Turkey Trot in City Creek. As usual, I went out with the quarter mile high schoolers but the lead group quickly dwindled to just me, Josh Steffen and a young guy who I don't know. Josh took the lead as we entered City Creek and I did my best to stay within a few yards. Fortunately he didn't get away and I passed him back just before the turn around. From there I knew I had to chance to hold him off because two years ago I was able to gain on him a bit on the downhill, although he still won in 20:28. I never looked back during the decent but sensed that he stayed on my tail until we hit entrance to Memory Grove. From there I did my best to accelerate at every opportunity and probably ended winning by 15 seconds. I definitely worked just as hard as in '09 but my time was 30 seconds faster. I think that's a good thing. Best thing about the run was winning the pre-cooked turkey. Would it be a bad thing to eat turkey for dinner for the next two months? It has to be better than the frozen pizzas I have been eating.
5:27, 5:56, 4:51, 4:06 (4:45 pace) for the last .8. Averaged 5:15. Happy Thanksgiving!
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