My primary goal was to average less than 10 minutes per mile, and I planned to maintain even splits. I had started in wave 5 with my sister, so at some point I had to start passing people. I hit the first mile at 11:00, so I had some time to make up. I reached the 3 mile mark in under 30 minutes, so at that point I was on target. I hit the turnaround exactly on pace, and felt good through mile 8 or so. At that point it became more difficult to maintain my pace, but I managed to keep it up. At mile 9, I had some orange slices. I LOVE oranges during a race. Miles 10-12 were all about trying to keep up my pace. I hit the 12 mile mark at 1:59:47 and realized I needed to pick it up a little during the last mile. By this point my hamstrings were burning, but my knee was fine, so I just went for it. For the last quarter mile, I went all out. I had hoped to make it across in 2:09:XX, but missed that by 2 seconds.

Nothing. I am really happy with how I paced myself and performed during this race.

My dad and my sister's boyfriend found me pretty quickly and told me that my sister had DNF'd at mile 9, so we went to our cars and made our way down there to pick her up. Then we went and got some food.


My less than optimal training. I started late because I had to spend close to a month recovering from Silverman, and then several long days at work caused me to miss a few key runs during the last few weeks.


It felt great to do this race and perform well in it after not getting to race last year because of my knee.