Well I'm plesently pleased with the race this morning. Haven't felt very racey and thought going into today that to be able to just run a 6 min avg or a 1:18 would be rathter tough. Big goal was to break 1:15 and just get a nice start to the racing year. So goals complete and that's satisfying after having so many races NOT go that way.
Temps were pretty good (a little cold for me at the start but I'm a baby). I just wanted to run the first lap of the course relaxed and then on the second shorter lap try to kind of race if there was anything to give. I stuck to the race plan and it worked. Coming into the second lap I upped the effort and started to grind out the remaining miles. I was sitting in 8th place with 5 miles to go about 5 seconds behind Dave H and 10 seconds behind Logan F. As we started back down the river trail by River Road I picked up the pace but I think everyone did. I held that effort to the one hill and was still back about the same on the guys. But once on top Logan started having a ankle problem so I went by him and tried to get him to come. Then just tried to work through the first lap people to finish off the last two miles. I caught Dave with about .7 to go and we basically just ran equal effort to the finish with me only beating him by like 5 seconds.
Happy with the place but more happy to have worked through an entire race. The time is ok for me this time of year... and I'm not a very good half marathoner anyways. Looking forward to doing more races this year and racing myself into decent shape come summer and fall. | 