Personal best for me, yay! I had no time goal in mind but expected to complete the race in 1:05:00 or so. I was already familiar with the terrain, the race was held in the area where I bike the most. There was a few gradual climbs which I ran without difficulties. I paced myself very well during the first 5k. I also did 15/1's, so I walked a total of 3 minutes throughout the entire race.

At kilometer 9, my Garmin was indicating a time of 52 minutes and change. I was going to make it within one hour for sure but was pondering if I was going to take it easy or crank it up. I did the later and ended this race with my best time ever on this distance.

All things considered, I could have completed this race in 55 minutes. I did not really need the walk breaks every 15 minutes.

Stretched a little inside the club house, had my post-race lunch, sneezed like crazy.


The fear of pushing myself too hard.


This was a very well organized race, from the time I arrived at the parking lot until I left the premises. The one disappointment from this event though was the timing chip. It matched my bib number but it was either dead or not activated prior being handed over to me. It was as if I never ran this race; the timing chip company rep told me that he did not have a start nor finish time for me but his list had me as a participant. I wore my chip at the front of my left ankle as usual... This sucks because I have no official finish time on my personal best. I wrote to the timing chip company to address the issue but I have yet to hear back from them.

Other than that, the post race activities for the 10k and half-marathon were good. I had an great post-race lunch. I will most likely sign up again for the 10k event.

Update: Sportstats finally found my start and finish times, yay!