I wanted to evenly pace this and I did that well. Couple of guys took it out pretty hard in the first couple of miles. I decided to run my own race and find my groove instead of getting caught up in a pace that might come back to bite me. First few miles were right around 6:40. Got out to 343 and Horns Point Rd and took in some gatorade and started gaining on some guys in front of me. Hit the turn around at 43:15 and sort of used that as a mental break to check things over, drop the arms for a second, and get the turnover up again. I was sitting in 7th at that point and 5th and 6th were about a minute up the road. Slowly gained on them til I caught them at the Horns Pt/343 turn. From there I was mostly running alone as the next guy was a ways up the road. I could tell I was slowly gaining on him, but ran out of room. Felt good on the bypass and at mile 11 I decided to start to open up the stride and push for home. I've ran that stretch dozens of times so it felt like a normal Saturday morning run. Got to the finish and was happy to record a 2.5 minute PR.

Not much. Used this race as an early season training race to build up and test out my run. Mission accomplished.

Swam 2k in the pool after eating some cookies and donuts.


Not really specific half marathon training. No real tempo or race paced running yet. Just lots of consistency (6 runs a week every week)...


It's a fun, low-key race.