Notes
8 hours sleep, V8, Oatmeal with brown sugar, maple syrup and raisins, coffee breakfast. Perfect weather for a distance race - cloudy, cool, some wind. Very windy in the area (17-20 mph), but lots of tree cover kept it down to a breeze on the course. Very nice course, not as pretty as some, but still pretty and relatively flat, with some low rolling hills. PRd, and would have broken two hours if not for a short but fairly steep hill between 10.6 and 11.2 miles. Kept on pace throughout. A tad fast on most miles, a bit slower on miles with water stops - plastic cups meant walking to be able to drink. If I'd known about the hill, I very well could have broken 2 hours buy not walking at the waterstops (say 5 seconds per, for 20 seconds) and really pushing it on the hill and after.
Best race overall since New Bedford in 2009 in terms of both time and experience. Would definitely do again if I don't break 2:00:00 in New Bedford in 2011.