I had two goals for this race. The first was to finish in under one hour and the secondary goal was to try to beat 55 minutes. I was well under my needed pace to achieve the second goal when right around 4.5 miles I developed a painful muscle spasm in my lower right back muscle just below the shoulder blade. I had to walk it out for about 3 minutes while I tried to massage it enough so that I could run again. Still 59:49 is a PR nonetheless.

I need to be more diligent about getting my weekend long runs into my schedule.

Having to yell at people to get out of the way when I was approaching the entrance to the track was really annoying. The crowd control at that point really kind of sucked with people walking across the race course.

Many runners (myself included) had to ask other people where the post race food/drink stations were as they were not obvious nor where directions visible to direct you that they were in the concession area under the stadium.