The Country Music Half Marathon was yesterday. This entire blog's purpose was to document my journey to completing it. But fret not one or two followers of my blog, I will continue blogging under a different title. Yesterday was probably about 20 degrees warmer than everyone expected. The direct sun made it feel hotter. I found my corral at about 6:30 am. It was pretty empty and I did not see Paul anywhere. Brian and Jessie were in corrals farther back. I decided to go pee before the race and found a mile long line to use the bathroom. It was 7am when I finally got out. I quickly found my corral as they were starting the first group. Now it was packed! I squeezed my way around until I found Paul. It was already warming up quite a bit. Our corral moved closer to the line and we were off! We decided to keep with the 2 hour pace guy. After about 4 miles he was started to pull away. It was around then I realized I did not know where Paul was. I had slowed a bit, so I thought he was ahead of me. Around mile 6 or 7 I see Paul catch up to me. We run side by side until mile 10. At this point we were under 10 minute miles with just 3 miles left! I knew we would not get 2:00 at this point, but the time would still be good. And then I hit a WALL. My calves and hamstrings cramped. I had stretch them out every so often. I blame the heat. My last 3.1 miles were at a pace of 12:30. So my time ended up being 2 hours 16 minutes 53 seconds (2:16:53). And I placed 7,655 out of 22,279 finishers. Not bad for a guy who weighed over 340 lbs a little over a year ago. I am having quite a bit of pain in my right knee and my left foot, but its already feeling a little better today. Now on to my next challenge!
Split Times:
5k - 28:50
10k - 58:51
10 mile - 1:38:16
13.1 - 2:16:53
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14 years ago
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