Notes
Yeah, I ran a huge negative split. Too huge. This race showed me my lack of experience in "racing" these longer distances. Went out way too slow and then spending a combined 1:18 taking a leak then a dump didn't help. Probably should have gone out closer to 7:00 pace (or faster) and tried to progressively pick it up from there. When I shifted it to sub 7 minute mile pace it was easy. I "coasted" the last two miles because I wanted to leave the legs fresh for good training this week.
Of all the races I ran in HS (CC & Track), random 5Ks, and more seriously over the last year or I've never left more on the course than today. Not even close. I've been doing too much work, running too many miles, to race like this.
The upside of this is that it's a good indicator of my fall marathon progress and fitness…fitness I don't seem to fully grasp. I could have kept going today for who knows how long. This race was run some 20 seconds per mile faster than my goal marathon pace.
Oh, the course was supposed to have "hills." I was going to damn slow to notice.
1:51:01 (7:07) Official Time
1:49:42.65 (7:01 pace) Garmin Running Time sans bathroom breaks (1:18 not running)