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atlanta half marathon

November 25, 2010 (Morning)

Exercise Type: Run

Weather: perfect. mid 60s, no rain.

Comments:
i've been preparing for this race since conference, so i was really psyched. i got up early and drove down to the race, got onto the starting line, right up front. i was real excited. as usual i started out way too fast. here are the splits, roughly:
5:22, 5:38, 5:29, 5:29, 12:00 for two, ...,6:20, 6:20, 6:10, 6:10, 6:40 for 1.1
it was a great race. i ran with a guy who used to run for georgia tech for a while, we went back and forth until mile 11, i was feeling good and i dropped him. finished the race pretty fast. the course was a lot hillier than previous years', so i was happy to PR by 3:30. i got a trophy too, for placing 1st in the 19&under age group. i placed 17th overall, so that was good, out of 9000. all in all, a great turkey trot.
i'm taking the rest of the week off, and then cross training through next week as my break. i'll start running again after that.