1:46:22/8:06
Decided to do this race with a friend that was doing it. I looked at the times from last year and figured I could do fairly well. This course is tough! Flat as a pancake. The plan was to run 8's and just under til 10 and then pick it up if I had it in me. Busses were supposed to pick us up by 6 and the race was supposed to start at 7:00. I'm assuming they used the same busses for the full and half becuase they didn't get there until 6:30 and the race didn't start until 7:25. Pretty annoying for a late starting race, plus it was already hot and humid. Did a very short warm up and started. My plan went well until mile 8 when I took a gel. I was fading and I just didn't have it in me to push. Let myself have an easy mile then was gonna pick it up again... Didn't really happen but I'm still happy with what I did. 3rd place behind 2nd by 12 sec. Wish I would have know. I probably would have pushed 15 sec harder.
7:54, 7:54, 7:56, 8:00, 7:53, 8:06, 7:59, 8:16, 8:09, 8:24, 8:14, 8:43, 8:01, :52(7:24 pace)
Banana w/ PB, hard boiled egg & milk before leaving, 3Fuel and E7 on the bus, 1 gel at mile 8.
Half mile or so after the race and 6 miles on the TM after getting home.
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