Oh how it has been too long. A friend and I have decided to try to PR in a half. He has a lot more experience and has run a sub 4 hour marathon although I have a slight edge when comparing PR's for the half. Our goal is sub 1:40. I realize how difficult this is going to be. After I ran, I am thinking closer to impossible. It is going to be a long journey back. 37:48:05 or 9:27 / mile. Splits were: 9:08 (warm up), 8:48 (trying to get progressively faster), 8:48 (fail), and 11:05 (cool down). A friend said, "if you want to get back into running, and it sounds superficial, go out and buy some new gear". I did (shorts, socks, new shoes, it didn't help! |