I posted this over at KR but now I see that everyone is over here.... Quick Result: 1:18:44 - 4th AG. A bit off my time from last year - but last year's 1:18:17 was 6th place so maybe it was a slow morning. My training had been going well, so I was hoping for a bit faster time, but overall it was a nice race. - Cool at the start and heating up during the race. An important safety tip would be not to drive a car with a manual transmission to races where you are driving home. - I had terrible cramps in the calf of my clutch leg and almost rear-ended the guy in front of me several times while creeping along in a traffic jam. I'm not sure the slower time bodes well for shooting at 2:40 in November... perhaps I've finally gotten old (if not mature). Ray

Although I responded to your other post on Kick, I wanted to add just two observations. First is that I follow your training pretty closely, especially because you follow much of Tinman's philosophy, so when I saw the PDR report I jumped right in. Somehow I thought this race was a ten-miler. So I'm reading the report and wondering, "what is Ray doing fooling around with a 78 minute ten mile race?" Was this race always a half marathon? Also, from now on, no matter how you run, I can't help but think that you are the other Sheltie owner. Good luck to you Ray. You are running superbly and are in great shape for the big race. Spareribs

Ray Moose, that's an incredibly fast half. The rest of us can only dream of 1:18. About driving a manual transmission: you should try driving an Army Hummvee. I have a military driver's license, which not everyone does, so I am often assigned to drive one. When I climb out after driving for a couple of hours in a convoy, where I have to constantly speed up and slow down to maintain my place in the line of vehicles, I stagger around for a while because my right leg is so tired and sore. It can't be good for me. Dark Horse

Ray, "old" and "slow" are relative terms! You're younger than many of us here, and faster than most. And at 4th in your AG, you're faster than most of them, too! Awesome racing! Oh, and getting more mature as you get older is overrated anyway.