Comments | zml: Mercer Island Rotary Half Marathon

zml

Mercer Island Rotary Half Marathon

Mar 22, 2009 20:45

I ran 13.1 miles in 2:29:58 today, the Mercer Island Rotary Half Marathon. I ran the race with jonobie the whole way, though I will admit that she probably beat me in the official time by something like a second. But I'll get to that later. Overall, I thought the race went really well ( Read more... )

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jonobie March 23 2009, 16:29:13 UTC

Great writeup, and congrats on your first half!!

zml March 24 2009, 02:58:50 UTC

Thanks! And to echo what you said in your writeup: There's actually no way I would've powered through the hills if it weren't for the fact that you were only a few paces behind! Since I couldn't keep up on the downhill, I didn't want to lose on the uphill. :)

martang March 23 2009, 19:41:06 UTC

congrats on the good race. I still need to write up my run in February...

zml March 24 2009, 03:04:11 UTC

Thanks!

Glad your knee is well enough to get *some* running in. My plan is to back off and try to build up again slowly. This time around, my knee was doing fine until a week where I just went out too fast for a 9 mile run. Given that I had run 9 mile the previous week with no pain, I'm hopeful I can get to a point where I can run 9 pain-free again. Hopefully that means I could do 13.1 pain-free as well .. We'll see.

nickjong March 23 2009, 21:21:24 UTC

Good job finishing strong despite the pain!

The brutal hill on my last half-marathon was also at 11 miles. Hmm....

zml March 24 2009, 02:55:30 UTC

Thanks!

And yeah, WTF? Maybe they should just reverse the courses. :)