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astra_nomer

Race report

Apr 19, 2015 23:00

Ran my second half-marathon this morning! The same race I did last year, actually.

Last year's time was about 2:34, so my goal was to run it in 2:30 or less. (Spoiler: I succeeded.)

( Cut for those of you who might actually read such things )

Comments 6

tla April 20 2015, 13:17:04 UTC

Wow that's a huge PR from last time! Go you!

gaudysalamander April 20 2015, 15:05:12 UTC

congrats! That's super awesome!

kelkyag April 20 2015, 20:05:17 UTC

Congratulations, and best wishes for that reliable ten-minute mile!

dcltdw April 21 2015, 06:44:19 UTC

YESSSS congrats and good job!

Also, GPS will always come out long -- my rule of thumb is it's off by 1%, so I expect a HM to come in around 13.2 or 13.3, and I could easily believe 13.4 if 1, it's a smartphone and 2, if you didn't run the tangents.

HMs are, in my opinion, first-class endurance events. No shame in never trying a full. :) Do you belong to a track club? That has been key for me speeding up.

astra_nomer April 22 2015, 17:32:33 UTC

I kind of knew that RunKeeper on my phone lied about milage, so I wasn't too surprised. I'd still like to believe in my mile 4 split of 8:59 (mostly downhill, of course).

I don't belong to a track club specifically, but I do belong to local a running club. It really helped because they sent out a weekly training plan for those of us training for the half-marathon, which I managed to follow 85% of the time. I don't know that I have much free time to go to group runs, unfortunately.

nuclearpolymer April 21 2015, 13:06:09 UTC

Good for you!