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Maccabiah Games Half Marathon

July 23, 2013 (Night)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: mid 80s and very humid

Comments:
It's hard to believe this race is over after so many months thinking about it and preparing for it. It would be an understatement to say that I'm disappointed with this time but I've never had to work so hard to finish a race. First of all, it was very hard to wait all day for the race to start and it didn't go off until 9:30pm since it would have been suicide to run in the sun. Started off in 5:55-6:05 pace for first 4 miles and was very comfortable. Shortly thereafter I started feeling the effects of the heat and I dropped my pace immediately to 6:30 range since I knew I would never finish the race unless I did. Unfortunately it was really hard for me to hold even that pace, which is what I would do on some of my steady state 10 miler days. I started really worrying around mile 10 when I still had 3 miles to go and was already completely destroyed mentally and physically. Then hamstrings started to cramp and after needing to walk for about a min or two, it took everything just to make it in the last couple of miles and I was just praying legs would hold out. Overall it was not the way I wanted to finish but I'm happy that I even finished.