Spartan 5k

I woke up to a cold windy morning Saturday . I had in mind to run a fast race . Shooting for a low 15:10ish . During the warm up I didn't see any fast contenders to push me through the race buy did recognize the headwind we was gonna have through the first mile . I checked the weather forecast on my phone and it said 10-15 mph at the time . Well I'll thought that low15 might be tuff to get . The start of the race is off and noticed this guy running on my heals . I thought it was probably a high school kid taking it out fast but about 400 meters he pulls up beside me . I look down at his shoes and notice he had just regular training shoes on . No flats . But he was pushing the pace . He looked over at me and said " you don't have to worry about me cause I didn't register , I'm just gonna pull off the course before the finish . I just wanna test my fitness " . I replied ok , cool . But I tried to show him that I wasn't gonna let him lead any but he was matching me step for step . I pressed on into the wind , he pressed on . I was hurting my first mile . We went through in 4:55 into a headwind of atleast 15mph which probably equaled out to a 4:35-4:40 mile . Soon as we get passed 1st mile turning away from the headwind I tried to open it up but soon as I did we made another left back into the headwind up a hill . Felt like I wasn't going anywhere . But after 300 meters of that we turned right and had the wind to my back I dropped him . 2nd mile was 10:22 . That first 1.4 miles hurt me . My last mile was 4:59 and finished with a time of 15:47 . The other guy was about :40 secs behind me before he turned off the course .
Everyone was saying their times was slow compared to last years . I ran 15:28 last year hoping to better that . Well now I'm trying to gear up for a fast competitive 5k in Warner Robins in two weeks . Looking to better my 15:32 time from their last year . And on that day is the baby's due date . It will be a great day one way or the other .
God Bless