Thanksgiving Day brought on an opportunity to jump into the
Wild Turkey 5 mile road race in Salem. I warmed up with Joe Shairs, showing him
the first mile and the last mile of the race course. I warmed up another mile
or so around the Salem Common with Nakri Dao. The race went out pretty fast
putting me in the top 20 by the time we reached Derby Street. I made my way
past a few guys into the mile (5:41) and holding tangents into Winter Island.
I got passed by a runner
in there as mile two went by. Joe was about 20 seconds ahead. I was flat
through the turns behind the Willows. The slowest mile was leaving Salem Willows and through mile 4 with
a 6:04 mile. We seemed to have a little head wind. The kid everyone was yelling for, “Billy” passed me before the last turn to the finish. I finished up behind him, good for 10th overall. My time
was 29:26 and first in my age group. Mile splits were as follows: 5:41, 5:50,
5:54, 6:04, 5:52 for the 5 miles. I rounded up Joe (6th - 28:32), Nakri (31st - 31:18), and David Corbett (12th - 29:33) and
we went out for a cool down which brought me over 10 miles for the day.
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| Joe Shairs, Nakri Dao, and I |
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