my makeup may be flaking

After everythin that has been going on, I wasn't even sure that I would run today. I decided that I would warm up and see how it went. In my first mile of warmup I felt some IT trouble in my left knee but it was not bad. After 4 miles I convinced myself that I was going to be fine.

At the start I didn't want to go with a group that was too fast but I didn't want to be stuck in noman's land either. The first three guys went out really fast and I didn't think I could handle it so I let them go. A fourth guy come up beside me and led me back to the leaders who still were going to fast. I looked back and saw we were destroying the field so I decided to just go with it and see what happened. After 1 mile one guy took off (Mangrum) and another guy dropped off the back so it was down to three in the pack (me,Darda and Winegar: my record against these guys is a combined 0-8 I think). Until about mile 3 we were clipping along together quite aggressively. In the 4th mile they quickly dropped me I could feel myself tensing up as I often do at that stage so I just tried to relax and keep the distance manageable. I came out of my funk at mile 5 and quickly surged and caught a struggling Winegar on a steep downhill.

Things started to get intense here. Darda was surging but I ran really tough to claw my way back to him over the next mile. From there on out I just pulled him along as I tried to catch the leader. I felt like I had him on the ropes the whole time even though he was on my shoulder. The course gets really hilly at the end and started to open a little gap but he didn't give up. He chased me all the way to the line but I had a strong finish to beat him by 6 seconds. Mangrum beat us by 40 seconds (he had that gap from about mile 5 onwards).

The course tool says ridiculous thing about my race, but I take them with a grain of salt.

Mile	Overall	Split	Pace	Predicted	Adj Pace
1	5:17	5:17	5:17	5:24	5:07
2	10:43	5:26	5:21	5:34	5:06
3	16:06	5:23	5:22	5:27	5:10
4	21:30	5:24	5:23	5:36	5:03
5	26:59	5:29	5:24	5:14	5:29
6	32:30	5:31	5:25	5:33	5:12
7	37:55	5:25	5:25	5:28	5:11
8	43:19	5:24	5:25	5:21	5:17
9	48:43	5:24	5:25	5:22	5:16
10	54:20	5:37	5:26	5:28	5:23
11	59:35	5:15	5:25	5:08	5:20
12	1:05:15	5:40	5:26	5:36	5:18
13.1	1:11:24	6:09	5:26	6:05	5:17

Nothing today, something not right with my foot.

Tendon on the top of my foot didn't feel right while running.

Better than yesterday but still alot of pain.

I had to stop several times during my run today to loosen up my foot