Ran the 40th Annual Sam Costa Half Marathon today in a pretty good 1:20:49. Course was gently rolling hills and we had a steady 10 mph NE Breeze. I was pretty much by myself in 15th place after the first 2 miles. I had two guys that had about 30 seconds on me that I worked on for the entire race, almost picked 'em up by 11 miles, but started to struggle by then and was just hanging on. Had severe lower GI pains almost the entire race (nothing like Grete Waitz in NYC), made it really hard to concentrate especially the last few miles. Temp was pretty decent, 43 at the start. Had to dump the Dollar General gloves once we had the tail wind at 5 miles. First 5 miles were primarily into the wind. Splits: 1) 5:54 2) 12:05 (6:11) 3) 18:17 (6:12) 4) 24:27 (6:10) 5) 30:33 (6:06) 6) 36:28 (5:55) 7) 42:29 (6:01) 8) 48:45 (6:16) Long gradual uphill 9) 54:44 (5:59) 10) 1:00:51 (6:07) 11) 1:07:02 (6:11) 12) 1:13:14 (6:12) 13) 1:19:28 (6:14) 13.21) 1:20:49 (6:25 pace)
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