Bummed

So, I ran the Tel Aviv Night Run on Saturday night.
It was, from the start, poorly managed: no organization, little to no security (anyone could - and did - run the race), late to begin, etc. etc. More on mis-management later...
Having said that, the feeling of running with 9,999 or so other people is amazing. A sea of red shirts all undulating up and down to
The beginning of races are always a mix of running and walking, and it's always a challenge to pick my way through the slower folks that started before me.
By the 2 kilometer mark, I felt good, really started to loosen up; by the halfway point, I had passed, I don't know, several hundred, if not a thousand or so people (this seems like a lot until you realize that you are running on the highway, which is 4-5 lanes packed with people).
The race organizers did not realize that about 35% of the last half was unlighted and visibility sucked. We were bunching up around corners, which again is fine, as long as you can see the borders of the corners...
Every couple of kilometers was a marker with a DJ playing the music typical of a city that was also participating in the Night Run (Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, London, NYC). This was also lame: just a lone DJ, with 2 plasma screens, one showing the KM marker, and the other the name of the city and style of music being played. For me and the 14,500 other people wearing iPods, this was a total waste of money...
By 7 kilometers, I was going strong, and by 9 kilometers I had caught up with the guy I was playing tag with for most of the race. The final kilometer was a blast, with people all along the sides of the path cheering us on. This was it! This was make or break time, so I went for it, sprinting the final 750 meters.
It was over, and the waiting began.
Remember I said there would be more on mis-management?
Results, which should have been posted immediately, were not up for display on the website until over 24 hours later. Talk about annoying. If there had at least been big clocks at the Start & End lines, I would have been OK with it, but I had no way of knowing how I did.
And how did I do?
My stated goal was to break 45:00 minutes. I was almost certain that I did, but I think I got cocky, and I did not reach my goal. Here are my statistics:
Time: 50:04.25
Place in Age group/Category: 423/2416
Place in Race Total: 1876 (out of a total of 9376)

I feel like I let the CrossFit team down, somehow, but I know that running the race strong, and finishing with gas left in the tank (I had to run home!!) was a certain show of the effectiveness of CrossFit to deliver the fitness required to safely (and somewhat) quickly run a 10K race with zero training.

 Thoughts?