[monit] alert clause gone wild

[monit user]

I am trying to add a secondary email for just certain conditions but that 
email is receiving an alert when I restart monit, too. I only want that 
address to receive mail for the specific situations where I use it. I can't 
figure out what I am doing wrong, never used this feature of monit before...

set alert address@hidden
set alert address@hidden

check system 10.0.0.10
  if loadavg (5min) > 5.0 2 times within 3 cycles then alert
     alert address@hidden

...

check process httpd with pidfile /var/run/httpd.pid
   if failed host 10.0.0.10 port 80 then alert
      alert address@hidden