Notes
GHS Half Marathon, 67:00, 2nd ($400). beautiful morning especially since the daily forecast this whole week made it seem like it was going to be windy as balls. race went out and we had a immediate pack of 4. settled into a nice cadence after the first few rolling hills leading to the 3 mile mark. tucked myself in the pack for the most part until furman where i made an aggressive move to string things out, I knew I was strong enough not to kill myself off. after 2 sub-5 miles, Ricky caught me and i spotted him a few seconds as i was in a good rhythm at the time. hit 10 miles in 50:42 and knew I had a legitimate shot at the Club's A Standard (66:42). I started feeling a few cramps in different spots starting to come on, likely from dehydration as the sun came out it raised about 10 degrees and was pretty humid. I tried my best to stay in a good spot mental but physically I knew I was slowing. I reengaged on a number of occassions but couldnt seem to reel ricky in. at 13ish I heard Ben call out that I was at 66:30 and at that point didnt have much of a chance at all of hitting the 66:42. still tried to be competitive but after a hair pin turn at 13 I lost a lot of momentum and couldnt gear up fast enough and fell about 5 sec short of ricky. still a great PR, and another good race in 2017.