Notes
Goal was to 'jog' 20 miles as a warmup then try to 'tempo' the last 6. Weather was absolutely perfect. This would have been a great year to go for it. 47 at the start to maybe 60 at the finish.
Ran most of the 1st half with Aaron Lee and Ron (?) from WVJS. Ran at a very comfortable, conversational pace for about 12 then they started picking it up for the 1/2 finish. I let them go and settled back into my pace. Slowly got a bit faster until at the 20mile mark I started trying to hit a tempo type effort. Felt excellent as I was passing tons of people from about 13 or so miles on. I never got passed after the 1/2 way mark but passed at lest 30 or 40 people on the way back to SJ. It was a good, confidence-inspiring run as I never felt too tired to keep running at tempo effort and finished pretty strong.