"There are no compromises." -Once a runner

Unofficial time 1:18:45 -- exactly 6 min pace... exactly.  And 10 mile split was 59:47.

EDIT: Official time 1:18:47

Yes.  It is true.  My gps even said it was 13.24 but I probably just cut the tangents poorly.  You had to to work with a pack in the wind.  I will get the splits off my gps later, but it was pretty much 5:55 pace the whole way except for a few hills which slowed me down.  I would say the course is fast, but not blazing.  There were at least 4 significant hills... Im talking 1/2 mile long hills--the worst of which is in miles 12 and into 13.  I do much better with rolling because I can recover on each downhill.  I would have run at least 30 seconds faster on a truly flat course.  But the weather was almost perfect.  It was high 40's and I actually went shirtless after the first 3 miles.  The wind was significant but was actually the opposite direction than it usually is.  Working with a pack really decreased its affect on me.  So miles 3-9 which are slightly downhill had the headwind instead of the first 3 and last 3 which is usually the case.  That was really good for my confidence because I was hurting at 10 miles though thought I could maintain pretty well.  Knowing that I had quite a bit of time in the bank and a tailwind to boot really helped psychologically.

 So, based on the mcmillan running calculator, my mile and half marathon are almost perfectly equal performances.  1:18:45 equates to a 4:55 mile.  And other equivalent times are 17:02 for 5k ouch, and 28:14 for 5miles another ouch.  I would really like to break 17 and 28 this season.  Let's hope I am up to the task.

Now the question is: why am I so slow for the mile?  My speed isn't that bad.  I can pop off 70-72's pretty easily in workouts.  And my aerobic capacity is obviously very strong compared to last year.  What is wrong with me?

AM: 4.25

PM: 8 Felt really good despite the race effort yesterday.

Today was the last exam of my 2nd year of med school.  Now I have a 38 day study period to prepare for the boards.  After that 3rd year starts and my running will really suffer for 6months-a year because of the tough schedule.

AM: a little bit hung over and it is the start of my boards study period so I got the extra hour of sleep so I could be productive today.

PM: 6.5

AM: 4.25

PM: 8.75 including hill workout - 4xdoyle hill (just short of 800m with 250ft vertical so a steady rise) in 3:14, 3:14, 3:07, 3:03 wow didn't think I would neg split this workout at all let alone by so much.  Then did 4 longish sprints up the same hill with a min or so rest in between.

AM: 4.25

PM: 5.2 woah look at that taper. 5k on saturday.

Ran down to the 5k course for tomorrow and ran the course.

 Edit: official time 17:19, 6 second PR.  Still not great but better than I thought.  The finish line must have been not where I thought it was.  There were like 3 or 4 mats so I thought it was under the last one. 

HAHA best thing is I was 7th out of, get this, 2100 lol.  Of course the winner did go 14:25 but wow that is a lot of slow people.

 Ugh.  I just felt bad right from the warmup.  But I may know why now.  I think it might be due to the bendryl that I took last night.  And I also took benedryl the night before both of the mile races.  But I didn't the night before the half marathon.  I think it might be a risidual effect.  

 Splits were 5:24, 5:41, 5:35, 44 (died horribly in the last 800 meters totally rigging by the end).

 Mark my words.  I will split 5k faster than this in my 5miler on thursday and it will feel easy.  I know I am in better shape than this. EDIT: Now that the official time is in I take back this statement.  I may yet split the final 5k faster but since I plan to negative split the 5 mile race I will come close but will not be faster than this time.  I am aiming to break 28 which is 5:36 pace.  I will go out closer to 5:40-45 then ratchet it down and if all goes well I should be able to close sub 5:30.

pm: 4.25