Adventure run today. Woke up at 5:10. Took metro then taxi, taxi went partway down my half marathon course and I dropped water then returned to start. Warmed up 6k, then met Alexis at the start of my half marathon course in two weeks. We ran the course. The first hill starts about a k from the start (depending on where the start actually is) and it is steep. In this first hill I am thinking already "this course is no good, I can't do this" but that first hill is the worst one. The whole course is a rolly one. Here is a link to the race on map my run, but it doesn't seem like the elevation chart. http://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/54223238, it seems much more rolly (other than the first hill). I think I can race it except take that first hill kind of easy. I'll wait to hear what my coach has to say about the whole thing. I will post my k splits of the course just to show what it is like (tried to keep even effort, though hard to be perfect with that) 5:27, 4:31, 4:37, 5:04, 5:24, 4:58, 5:06, 4:10, 4:35, 4:53, 5:31, 4:33, 4:17, 4:18, 4:34, 4:47, 4:41, 4:40. Only 18k of data since we didn't do an out and back on a couple of places. Then Alexis needed a marathon pace 8k (4:10-4:15), so I did that with or behind her: 4:14, 4:10, 4:17, 4:13, 4:07, 4:14, 4:02, 4:34 (tempo stopped halfway through this one). 24 miles total. | 