Hey Richard, I'm one of the ones who ran the TR HM. It was my first half and I was hoping to break 2 hours. Got close - 02:03:28 - and will hopefully get under 2 hours next time! Welcome to the group. Hopefully, as you said, the activity will increase, too.

Hi guys, I have been trying not to spend too much time on RA except for logging my training. Yeah I think the 3 of us on this post have run so close to each other, we might have passed each other somewhere along the course. I am planning on either the Corporate Cup on March 7or Race Fest in April or maybe both. Hope to see you guys there.

Hi HMhopeful... I'm planning on running the Corporate Cup and the Charlotte Racefest too but haven't decided if I'll run the half marathon or one of the shorter races on either one. I'm hoping to run the New Jersey Marathon on May 3rd so I think the Corporate Cup half marathon works best into my schedule. I see you ran the Spencer Mountain 10-miler in 2007. That's only about 3 miles from my house but after I drove the course I wimped out and went to a different race that day. That last hill looks like a killer! Hi Docster... Good luck at Myrtle Beach and especially Boston! I'd love to qualify for Boston one of these days but I guess I'd better finish my first marathon and see how that goes and if I can do it before I start making plans for Boston. I'll be 57 this month and I just started running in September 2008 and I hear that if you stay healthy and do things right you can keep improving for five years or so (I'll let you know if that's true in about five years). If so, my BQ time will be 4 hours in about 3 years so I'm hoping that's a future possibility for me. I see you did your 22-mile long run for Myrtle Beach yesterday (02/01/09). Way to go!

I'll have to keep that in mind next year for the Spencer Mountain 10 and maybe I'll give it a try. Hope they don't mind me walking the last 3 miles (actually, maybe I'll do some hill work before then).

Welcome to the group! We must have been very close to each other during the TR half - I finished about 7 minutes behind you.

Thanks. I appreciate the welcome. Looks like several of us were close together. I had friends finishing near the same time and never saw them. The race was an awesome experience to say the least, especially being my first half, and also the first time I had run that distance. I've been wondering how the next one will compare to be honest? I haven't gone back and looked at my splits but I didn't slow down too much. I ran mostly even splits. I do know that the last half mile was brutal to maintain my pace. When they routed us up into that "parking lot"? or whatever that was, I wanted to scream at somebody! I think my lack of many long runs brought that fatigue on for sure.