2 mile warm up before the half marathon. it felt way way way hard especially the last 3 miles! but im very happy with how i did 7th overall and 2nd age group! 1:19.30 ish was my time.
i read coaches blog and decided to put more on haha! first 3 miles were alot faster than i thought! i actually decided to run the half hard in these few miles because i knew i had a chance for top 10! the first few miles were all about 5:30 which suprised me a ton! i broke my 5k record by 5 seconds (17:10 to 17:05) going into the rolling hill section of the race. me and rhino stuck together and past casey about at the bridge (he was looking like he was hurting alot and me and ryan cheered him on for a bit). rhino and i stuck together untill the end of the dam road when i took a small lead. i caught up to mikey at the base of that tougher hill. i saw a yellow car, hit mike and past him a little bit as i gained a lead on him. it was tough runnin up the rest of that road but that hill at mile 10 was definantly the hard point of the race when the pain and tiredness really kicked in. got passed by this dude in yellow as he encouraged me to push the hill. i made it to the top almost to devon ( mile times went from 5:30 at the start to closer to 6 in the middle and now they were about 6:30 to 6:50) then just couldent go much faster for a mile or a mile and a half. i picked my pace up to about 6:30 to finish out thoes terrible last 2 miles. i finished and could barely stand up! it was a tough race to do. but it was pretty well worth it.
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