Notes
Urban Wildland HM- Nice new HM PR for me. Pretty good weather at the start and never got too warm. A ton of people ran this one pretty hard out of the gate and I just sort of trailed along and let people pull me along. Faded just a little bit on the second half (miles 9-12). I had a fast finishing mile and practically an all out sprint at the end with some other guy who was closing pretty strong from behind me. My last .11 split was at a 4:21 pace, which I know is pretty inaccurate but we were moving pretty good regardless. We were really running hard and shoulder to shoulder for a while but then he faded about 50 yds from the finish. Didn't really seem to be mentally into this one until the last few miles and also dealt with some minor heartburn issues the entire race, but that finish made the race for me. I'm extremely happy about how today went and felt I learned some valuable lessons. It feels like my marathon goals are more within reach and should be pretty reasonable, which was what this race was all about. Finished 18th out of 771ish!