Snowstorm 10K -- Sat. Dec. 18

Head off in slightly better time, arriving just after 9 am amid lots of runners wearing numbers: it's the GSH Fatass 50K today, as well as a Snowstorm day. Sign up and do a tiny bit of warm up, then line up, chatting w/ Ivan meanwhile. Very gentle start, with the lead group of four (Carlos, Landry, and two others) just ahead -- noone racing, clearly. After a mile I thought I could even move up to join the pack, but then they picked up a bit, and I stayed at 6:30 ish. Kept them in sight the whole way, though the lead two soon disappeared and the other two got steadily further ahead. At the four mile point we joined some of the 50K runners (including a cheerful Sri) and I passed a couple, but one of them was keeping my pace -- while doing more than a marathon... I tried to close on him but no go, so I just aimed to stay steady, and came in thus:

Time: 40:27 (40:25 GPS)
Distance: 6.2 miles (6.35 (GPS)
Pace: 6:31s (6:22s)

Comment: this was enough for fourth place (Carlos was running bandit), which was fine and all but noone else was racing. I guess I wasn't by the end -- first time I've done a Snowstorm where there was no competition -- I'd have had to make more than a minute to catch the guy ahead, and Joe F was nearly 3/4 of a minute behind me. Ah well, next time -- the turn out was solid enough at 100+. Then, after eats, I went for another lap with Landry -- I wanted just four more to get double digits, though he did the whole 6+ miles. We started easy enough, but coming up on three miles I foolishly mentioned the pace (slower than 7:30s) so he suggested upping it. Final mile was sub-6:30! Overall, thus: 4.26 miles @ 31:27 = 7:23s.
Quite a day.