Lincoln Memorial Half Marathon - Springfield, IL

Lincoln Memorial Half Marathon in Springfield, IL. At 5:30am it was pouring, at 6:30am while driving down to the race start, it was sprinking, and by the 7:30 start, no rain. In the 50s for the race, felt pretty good out. I started a bit slow and ended up not being able to make up the time to get under 2 hours. I thought I was going to make it, but of the .09 miles the garmin gained during the race, .05 of it was in the last 1.1 miles, and I just couldn't kick it in high enough to shave off the seconds. 13.1 miles officially in 2:00:11, average pace of 9:11, AHR of 163. For the last 5 miles my average heart rate was 170 or so, with the lowest mile average was 169, so I was pushing it quite a bit. Couse had a few hills, but was fairly flat. Splits of 9:55, 9:12, 9:20, 9:27, 9:16, 8:52, 9:24, 9:10, 8:29, 8:51, 8:58, a 20 second lap at 8:58 pace to get back in sync with the mile markers, 9:03, 8:38 and a 1:11 for .15 miles to finish, 7:57 pace. Ran with Rachel from the Fleet Feet running club for the first half of the race, ran with a woman from Indiana for the second half as I sped up. Good race, will probably do it again.