I hadn't planned on running the half, but my training program for Lonestar called for a 2hr run and I came across a bib so I figured why not. I wasn't sure how this would go since my training program had called for a 3.5 hr bike ride on Saturday and I rode on the trainer for 3 hrs.

My goal was to run in Zone 2 for the first 1.5 hr and then pick it up some and for the last 30 minutes and see if I could make it right at 2 hours. From the start I had a hard time holding it back and couldn't seem to get down past the top of Zone 2 so I figure I would just go ahead and hold it there, but it was still hard to let all of those people run past me. Everything went great and I felt good heading to the half turn around (took a gel 15 min before the race and one at mile 6.5, and kept fluid intake to a minimum, I seem to drink to much and feel full, and this worked great). At the turn around, I picked the pace up and let my HR move up into Zone 3 and just put it in cruise control and gradually sped up. To my surprise I was running well below a 2 hr pace and was looking at 2:55 and thought my legs feel good lets see what they have left. Covered the last 3 miles running about a 7:45 min/mi pace and finished with a 1:52:47. Way better than I was expecting and my legs felt great and never felt the ride from yesterday.

2nd Half Marathon and beat my San Antonio time by 25 mins.

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Stretched and grapped some food to eat on the way home and make it in time for church. Made sure I wore my finisher shirt and got a lot of "You ran the half marathon this morning and still made it to church!"