Another great race and another personal record!
I did a 4 mile race in Lynbrook today. Fly With the Owls was a local race - fourth race in the Long Island Track and Field Grand Prix series. So it attracted some of the fastest runners in the area. There was a good size crowd. More than 800. I'm not sure if that included the walkers division. We get some serious racewalkers out here. I managed pretty even splits of about 8:16 for an official race time of 33:32. My watch got me in 33:02 - that's more than a minute off of my previous best time and it felt much more effortless than that race. I was pushing it, though. I didn't have too much of a kick at the end which tells me that I was keeping up a good pace.
My sixteen week training program for the More Half-Marathon officially starts tomorrow. The first few weeks are pretty much what I normally do, so the only thing I have to work on is consistency. I have a hard time actually getting myself out the door. In week 5, I start adding in a tempo run and the long run is going to start getting longer. I hope we get the mild winter that the experts are predicting or I'm going to be spending a lot of boring time on the dreadmill.
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Very cool!! That's a great start to a training cycle.
I paced 17 miles of the More Marathon last year. Might run the half (assuming I can pair up with someone) if the Flyers don't end up pacing this one again.