My seventh race this year was supposed to be the pinnacle the goal I was striving for with the rest of the year the downhill slope easing my way through the rest of the year. Unfortunately it turned into a pretty solid disappointment. 13.1, the half. Hot, humid weather combined with not quite enough training and still being painfully overwieght made the race pretty bad. I was hoping to run the whole thing with a backup goal of finishing under 2:30. Neither was reached. The most I can say for the run was that I made it to the end no matter how slow and painful the thing was. Unfortunately, it sort of destroyed my desire to try this again. I'm limiting myself to the 10K at my max distance at least through the rest of the year.
A breakdown of the splits for the race shows when it all fell apart, right around mile 9 where my overall pace increased by a full minute, then went even higher tacking on another 20 seconds to add insult to injury.
5K (33:27, Pace 10:42 ),
10K (1:07:29, Pace 10:48),
10 Mi (1:58:44, Pace 11.48),
1/2 (2:39:29, Pace 12:10)
PRs are now:
5K (3.1 miles): 27:35, Pace 8:54 (4/28/12)
10K (6.2 miles): 1:06:19, Pace 10:41(10/12/08)
1/4 Marathon (6.55 miles): 1:07:51, Pace 10:21 (3/31/12)
1/2 Marathon (13.1 miles): 2:39:29, Pace 12:10 (7/22/12)
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