Notes
I felt pretty good about this race. Although I missed my goal of 1:50:00, I beat last year's time by just over 20 minutes. I was hoping to stay around 8:25/mile in the first part of the race and felt like it was a comfortably hard effort. I planned to shave off a few seconds each mile in the second half and was going strong until about mile 12. I started to feel more fatigued and unable to push much harder without blowing up. It was starting to get warmer out too so that may have caused me to slow down a bit. Overall, it was a great race, and it looks like I may possibly be able to do the marathon in under 4 hours.