5 Miler

St Louis St Patrick's Day Parade five mile run, ran the weekend before St Patrick's day. They were calling for crappy weather, 30s, windy rainy, but it ended up being in the 40s and no rain, with not too much wind. Crowded start, about 10K total runners. First mile was 10:20, it was mostly uphill and was tight quarters. 9:41, 9:33, 9:45 and 9:35 for the rest of the race (plus 27 seconds to wrap up the race). 49:23 total time, 9:53 avg pace, AHR of 174 with an AHR of 181 for the last mile, and I felt like I could have ran faster, I didn't feel like I was giving it my all. Overall a fun time, will do it again.