My race plan was the same as last weekends ½ mary go out easy (zone 1) the first 4 miles, the pick it up the next 3 ( upper zone2) and then the last 3 try to pick up the pace even more (zone 3 +). For those who read my race report on the Runners World ½ Marathon know that I tried and failed at this plan. Last week I wore headphone for the very first time ever during a race. I feel the headphones played a major role in me not having the race I hoped for last week. Needless to say I didn’t wear headphones for this race. The race started out with a lot of runner traffic, after about mile 3 or so I would say it loosened up. A few minutes into the race I saw that my HR was not recording so I had to stop and reset my watch, and I missed the 1st mile marker, so my HR data isn’t dead on.
The first 4 miles kept an easy pace with “the gomer” with “dare2trimom” only a few paces behind us. I guess we were keeping about a 8:25 pace. At mile 4 I picked up the pace for the next 3 miles, I was keeping a 7:48 pace or so. At mile 8 I tried to pick up the pace again, which I was able to do, now I was holding a 7:42 per mile. I crossed the line with a time of 1:20:27. It was a PR for me!!! It was a good race I had a lot of fun with “the gomer” “dare2trimom” and her twin sister. I also saw “liv2tri” (Megan)


i don't anything i had a plan and stuck with it. Maybe i would try to run a little hard those last 3 miles.

didn't do much of anything. Just talked about all the funny things we saw along the race course.


Great Race with great people!!!!