The Shape Women's Half Marathon is two plus loops in Central Park. Since it is a women's only event, I got to start at the very front of the pack - right behind Deena Kastor who won in 1:16:xx. I was disappointed in my time because it was about 30 secons slower than my January half on basically the same course. On the other hand, I haven't been running that much so cannot reasonably expect to be getting faster!
1. 7:08 - started out with a team mate; went too fast.
2. 7:27 (hill)
3. 7:08 (down hill)
4. 7:44 (up and down hill)
5. 7:34 (hill)
6. 6:49 (down hill)
7. 7:55 (down hill)
(think miles 6 and 7 were not marked correctly; I was doing manual splits)
8. 7:40 (hill)
9. 7:15 (down hill)
10. 7:50 - (up and down hill) ?
11. 7:40 (hill)
12. 7:19 (down hill)
13. 7:26
The rest at 7:02 pace
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