I have to admit I was a little nervous, not sure why but the run went relatively well. My knees really didn't start getting sore until around mile 7, but I think mainly because I had ran my 4 mile easy run last night. I went ahead and took the Asics Gel-Blur33 2.0 for another test run and they did wonderfully, I think they might be my new favorite long run shoes and I will be retiring my Ghost 5's. The Asics Cumulus 14's are on their way, so we will see how they do and whether I will make them my race shoes or not. The 52 degrees and sunshine was really starting to warm up around mile 8 but I ignored it, and actually enjoyed the change from 30-40 degree weather. Anyways, I am tired and pooped but I ran 11 miles in 1:55:33 with an average pace of 10:30 min/mile so not bad compared to my 10 mile run 2 weeks ago, I did feel a bit fatigued half way through but nothing bad. Next weekend is the Run of Luck 7k, and I am going to try to run 5 or 6 miles afterwards, on a trail maybe or just an easy 6 miles on the Greenway.
My splits were:
Mile 1 - 10:55
Mile 2 - 10:21
Mile 3 - 10:16
Mile 4 - 10:37
Mile 5 - 10:28
Mile 6 - 10:24
Mile 7 - 10:27
Mile 8 - 10:15
Mile 9 - 10:40
Mile 10 - 10:34
Mile 11 - 10:34
I am pleased with the run overall, I think if I had kept running for another 2.1 miles I probably would have ran 13.1 miles between 2:15:00 - 2:18:00 which would still have been much faster than my last 2 half marathons which were 2:34:53 last year and 2011 was I think 2:31:something so I would still be about 15 minutes faster. I hope St. Louis' Half Marathon goes real well, and with not incidents.
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