Dogtown Half - What a fun race! Got to the start line about 30 min before the race and did a quick warm up and we started soon after. I got out a little slow I guess. I came in with the same strategy I used last year to chill at the beginning and close hard. I probably got out a little slower than I probably should have and most of my teammates got way ahead right here. I started picking it up around mile 3 and tried to see if I could catch anyone. I was running with the top women for a while here before I picked it up again around mile 6 and caught Mitch. Mitch didn't stay with me for very long as I tried to go catch Jake and this other guy who was wearing blue. I think Jake was picking it up a lot here too so i didn't close the gap on him but I started catching the blue guy. At Majestic hill, I was just barely behind him and Coach yelled at me to go get him. I finally caught the blue guy just past mile 12 and I passed him. He came back though and we ran with each other very briefly before I gave one last push with about 800 meters to go and he didn't come with me and that's how I finished the race. Decent race. I don't feel like I ever pushed as hard as I could or ever really got into race mode. It was a very fun race though. I just really like half marathons for some reason.
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