Ran much better than I expected considering the overall health circumstances. Having just started medication for bronchitus and finding out that I have inflamed lungs from the bronchitus I expected a very slow difficult run. My goal, though I was not convinced that I could make it was to break two hours. The first mile was the slowest being around 9:40, the fastest being mile 4 at 7:35 and all others being steady right around 8:10. My lungs where tired from not feeling well, but not so tired that I could not maintain the pace. Wish I was at 100% both at the race and during the training up to this run. I wonder what I could have done then. I think a lot of the lungs surviving given the circumstance was the altitude difference from Colorado and New Jersey. Somehow PRed even though I had no intention to even try to do this. It wasn't till mile 12 that I thought I could PR. Until this point I thought my pace would crash and I would be lucky to break two hours.

Nothing, since I was as prepared as I could have been given the conditions of the race and prep to the race.

Stretched a little and waited near the finish line for Laura and her mother to cross together. Once we where all across we got some food and then went and picked up the checked bag and changed into dry cloths. To bad it was raining and we were soaked again by time we made it onto the shuttle and back to the car.


Overall Health.....


The shuttles got lost going to the event from the parking event and the race was about 30 minutes behind schedule.