Blake Bennions running

Half marathon at goal marathon pace around my big neighborhood loop. Felt amazing the first 8 miles with a few moments where my legs felt it. Miles 8-10 I started feeling a little more drained, then mile 11 I hit a bit of a wall. I'd built up plenty of a cushion to go sub 1:30 but my goal for the workout was to stay at or under 3 hour pace the whole time after mile 1, so I pushed pretty hard to stay at 6:53 or faster the last couple miles. I was at 6:50-6:52 for miles 11-13 and then I did a stride to finish up the last .1. Finished the run in 1:27:30.

Lot of endurance to build in order to be able to do todays run twice in a row- especially if I want to enjoy the race and not suffer for the last hour of it. I had pretty consistent 6:30 miles for a while in the middle of the run, I think that's a good pace to use as marathon pace going forward. I'll sign up for a marathon when I can do 20-22 miles at marathon pace with a few at marathon pace miles at the end of the run.

Easy run with 6 strides.

Stroller miles. Reflecting about how good a February this has been. Typically it's my least favorite month, but in Grove city we've had a bunch of days in the high 50s and 60s. Yesterday and today were high 60s and we'll hit the 70s this weekend. I'm just going to say it, the weather in Columbus Ohio is better than Santa Barbara. There's no ocean and a little more bugs, but the actual temperature and such is better here on throughout the year. That may be somewhat biased by sb only having like 15 total days in the year where it's warm enough to swim, which I found disappointing.

Beyond the weather life is generally just good outside of being far from family. Whitney makes our life pretty joyful, although I definitely miss sleeping in and could do with a little more free time.

Late night and rainy. Been a busy week.