| Little Rock Marathon. Tweaked my back, so was letting it rest up before the marathon - then managed to tweak it again sneezing while in Little Rock, heh. We walked around quite a bit on Friday seeing the sites, probably got in our 3 miles. Race morning was quite nice, in the 50s, getting close to 70 by finish time, but it was mostly overcast with a good wind, so didn't feel too warm out. Race went pretty good, first half I ran all miles in the 10s, with a Half Marathon split of 2:18:13, 10:33 pace. I then started slowing down as the course started the major climb, next 6 miles were mostly in the 11s (one was 10:39), then the final 7 miles, 5 were in the 12s and 2 were in the 11s. I did have enough juice to push it a bit at the end, but not too much. Total time was 4:55:46 for an 11:17 pace, AHR was 166 It was my slowest marathon (other than Chicago) but the course was much tougher than Memphis, and with my calf muscle injury slowing me down in training, I was happy with the results. |
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