Official times for my half marathon today are up! I set a new personal record, coming in at 1:25:37 (gun time 1:25:42) for an average pace of 6:32/mile. I placed 30th overall out of 2112 runners, 24th among the 993 men, and 6th out of the 129 men in my age group. Im very pleased! I said going out that I knew Id break 1:28:00, thought I could break 1:27:00, and wanted (as a stretch goal!) to break 1:26:00—and break 1:26:00 I did! This is two years in a row that I have improved my PR by ~3 minutes. Last years time on the same course was 1:28:57, so I improved by a full 3:20, which surprised me. I knocked out miles 1 and 2 (both downhill) right around 6:00, which worried me. I backed off after that and settled in the rest of the run. Mile 11 was tough, as usual, but I was running faster than I *felt* like I was running—it was hard, but thats how its *supposed* to be near the end of the race. Happily, I had enough left that my fastest mile other than those first two was the last one, in which I managed roughly a 6:15. One of these days Ill manage not to overdo it at the beginning, and that will *really* be a race. --- For context, the guy who won the half marathon did it in 1:12:07, which is a 5:31 pace—fully 1:01/mile faster than me. The guy who won the marathon ran the first half in 1:15:13, and finished the whole thing at 2:29:30, at a 5:43 pace, which is just mind-bogglingly fast from where I stand.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 22:06:41 +0000
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