I went out a little faster than I should of and I could feel it later on in the race. I was feeling pretty tired towards mile 10 or so and could really feel myself slowing down. I knew the race was almost over at this point so I tried to suck it up and have a decently strong finish. You can see my splits going up until mile 12 when I finally started bringing things back around.

M1- 7:01
M2- 7:35
M3- 7:48
M4- 7:49
M5- 7:58
M6- 8:04
M7- 8:06
M8- 8:14
M9- 8:15
M10-8:58
M11-8:56
M12-8:34
M13-8:32
M.1-:47




While I know I went out too fast and lost time on almost every mile. The early miles were of the pace I used to be able to run and want to be back to.
This race at least let me know that the speed is still there I just need to get a little more fit at that pace.

I wandered around until I found my friends and got my two free beers. Met up with Len and Bill after they finished. Bill has lost 50 lbs. since last years Super Bowl and did his first 1/2 Mary in just over 2 hours, he did awesome! After that we headed to the Tavern on Mill to have a beer and endure the slowest and worse service I have experienced in a long time. They seemed surprised they were busy, just the marathon and a Cardinals play off game going on, who would have thought they'd be busy!


You can always be a little more fit!


They always do a great job with these races. Even with the huge numbers of racers they still handle everything very well. It was a good day: I was perfectly happy with my race time, I brought my flip flops for after the race (even though the whole time I thought I had forgotten them), and most unbelievable of all the Arizona Cardinals are NFC Champions and are going to the Super Bowl!