Fulton 1/2 Marathon

On Oct. 16 I ran the Fulton 1/2 Marathon I ran this race last year and went 1:50. I wanted to break 1:45 all year and i have not been able to put that perfect race together. So going into Fulton I thought lets give it another shot. However it would be difficult as the day before I would spend 8 hours in a car and 6 hours at a wedding. Oh did I mange to say I went to bed at 1:30 am and had to get up at 4:45 am for the race. So I was working on just over 3 hours of sleep.

My goal was just go out and get in a long run. I was wearing a GPS for the first time so I had planned to run 8:10's for the first 6 miles and then go from there.

This plan did not work out at all.

I ran the first 4 miles on 32 minutes. which is 8 min miles

At mile 4 I met up with a women and we ran from mile 4 to 11 together she paced me to 7:55 miles and I ran miles 11 to 12 and 12 to 13 at 7:20 pace.

I ran a 1:43:11 My best 1/2 marathon time in 11 years and only 3 minutes off of were I was before Ironman Florida.

This race was a good step forward.