Bret

Des News Half - I turned 50 yesterday and so moved up an age group and earned an over "50 PR" this morning with a relatively disappointing time of 1:40.28 - (I ran 1:25 here 3 years ago to provide some perspective) but did win my age group - so that somewhat compensates for my assessment of my race today.  

I have been doing base training for several weeks and only in the last couple of weeks has my foot injury really begun to feel nearly normal.  Also not being from altitude - I resolved to make my race effort match a target heart rate instead of trying to aim for a goal pace per mile.  As the course flattened so did my pace - so to speak.   

I ran relatively well for the first half and was satisfied with the pace - but I could not maintain that pace at the same HR for the second half - in fact the HR kinda blew up in the last 2 miles even though I had slowed down.  Nevertheless I gave an honest effort today and could not have run any better than I did.  

Here's to hoping that the injury fully resolves itself and I can see some improvement in my racing times over the next few months with better training.