2010 Murray Todd Half Marathon Run

Waking up at 4:45am never gets easy. At first I wanted to bail on this race and just take out my bike given the forecast was for 60 degree temps but Marc held me to the original plan. I had rode my bike for 45 hard miles the day before with my brother, Mike K and Ronel and so I planned on a 2:00hr half marathon run and was treating this event as a nice easy training run.

Of course that never does happen, I found myself running 8:10 pace through the first three miles, it didn't feel hard and I felt strong. My legs were a bit sore and tired from the bike the day before but nothing major. When I hit mile 7 it was roughly 58min. I had been talking to two other runners that i had ran with since the start of the race and was not paying attention to time. It was looking like i was well on my way to breaking 1hr 50 min which had been my goal two months prior but failed to accomplish. I pushed a little harder the last 6 miles and finished with a PR of 1:46:32. I was extremely happy with my results.

I may need to recalculate my goal time for the run in the California Ironman 70.3. My goal time was 2:00 hrs but may revise to 1:55 hrs.

Rico