Ran The Blues At The Crossroads Half Marathon today in a pretty
decent 1:19:50 for 2nd overall. Pretty tough course, but handled it
pretty well. Temp cool 59 at the start and a little humid, but good
conditions. Fighting some pretty bad lung congestion as I came down
with a cold when I was in Bolingbrook earlier this week. Explains why
legs were completely dead for two days. Went out the first mile with
eventual winner Tim Monaghan in 5:47 and had to let him go, I wasn't
going to maintain that today! Splits: 1 5:47 2 11:40 (5:53) 3: 17:37 (5:57) 4 23:36 (5:59) roughly 45 seconds off the lead at this point and only about 20 seconds on 3rd 5 29:48 (6:12) 6 35:58 (6:10) wondering at this point if I was going to break 1:20 7 42:02 (6:04) 8 48:13 (6:11) 9 54:27 (6:14) 10 1:00:53 (6:26) Hitting the hills now! Trying to accelerate on the down hills to hold off 3rd place 11 1:07:16 (6:23) 12 1:13:27 (6:11) 13 1:19:39 (6:12) F
1:19:48. Splits are off my Garmin rather than course markers. Garmin
was dead on right through 4 miles, then it started to lose. Others in
the race had 13.08+ on their Garmins. No problems at all with the left
groin muscle. Excellent effort, but work week really got in the way, and there's things I really need to be working on.
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