Went down to Arkansas to visit my mother and grandma. My grandfather passed away and it was my last weekend before I head over to Iraq so it as a good trip and good family time. There happened to be a 5K race in town while we were there so we jumped in. At the start there was one college kid bit other than that it looked like my son James and I would fair pretty well. Sure enough the college kid bolted out at about 5:00 pace. I settled in ata more reasonable pace and was actually in 6th palce for the first 1/2 mile. However by the 1/2mile mark I passed 3 high school age kids and at that point it was just my son James and the college kid in front of me. I went through the 1st mile in 5:21 with my son James about 5 seconds up on me at this point. I tried to close a little on James during mile two but I think he stayed 5-6 seconds in front of me still. Mile 2 was 5:40. At this point James was starting pull away and I was hoping to hang on and run udner 17:30 at least. Third mile was a bit of a struggle mentally but I still hit a 5:44. Finished with an even effort at 17:27. Overall a decent run and a good last weekend in the USA. | 