Oatmeal Festival

I finally ran this one on Saturday. I was surprised at the turnout, 1100+. Not bad for a cold 20 degree morning. This is a more difficult course than the typical 5k and there were some fast guys there including Ewen North, Peter Reamian and Mr. Keino from Arvada. Peter and I knew that we would have to take the race out hard if we wanted to beat Keino, so that's exactly what we did. For the first half of the race which is basically all uphill, we just kept increasing the pace. By the turnaround, we had put a pretty good gap on him. The rest of the race was basically Peter and I running side by side with him eventually pulling away for the win with 200 meters to go. Good race for both of us, and not a bad way to start the new year winning some money. I may run a track race in Nebraska soon.