Ran the Evansville Half Marathon today in 1:20:03. Just missed my goal of 1:20 by 3 seconds. I was under pace all the way up to 12 miles. I ran really well the first 8 miles going through in 48:29. So at that point, I was still 20 seconds to the good. Then I started to struggle a little and slowed down. Got re focused and got back down to 6:05 pace and went through 10 miles in 1:00:50, still 10 seconds under 1:20 pace. But the legs started to get heavy, 12 miles in 1:13:22, now 10 seconds over. I really dug deep and tried to squeeze under, but finished just short. Sooo close. Even so, it's the 4th fastest half marathon I've ever run and the fastest I've run since I set my PR of 1:17:16 now almost 10 years ago. It was really warm today, I really feel for those who ran the Chicago Marathon today. Thank goodness my race started at 7:00 local time, just 4 minutes after sunrise. And I'm glad I went with the sun glasses today. I've never done that before. Have another half marathon three weeks from now on November 1st. Hopefully, I can resume some training by the end of the week and get a good 10 day stretch in there. Splits 1. 5:55 2. 12:01(6:06) 3. 17:58(5:57) 5K 18:31 4. 24:03(6:05) 5. 30:09(6:06) 6. 36:12(6:03) 10K 37:44 7. 42:22(6:10) 8. 48:29(6:07) 9. 54:45(6:16) 15K 56:37 10. 1:00:50(6:05) 11. 1:07:07(6:17) 12. 1:13:22(6:15) F. 1:20:03(6:41)
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