The Palisade half marathon was a great race! It was small race and the course was amazing.
I ran a 1:49, which I was happy with since I had not run speed workouts for the month of April. My hip has also been bothering me and started hurting at mile 1 so I felt like I was mentally tough for this race. We ran along vineyards, the Colorado River and huge mesas! There was a huge hill around mile 4 that which was advertised as 195 ft but it sure seemed a lot longer than that! I started out slower on purpose and that seemed to work for me. I did start to get fatigued at mile 9 but held strong. There was some wind but nothing major.
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| There were 14 of us from the club that either ran the 10K or the half! |
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| Wine Tasting! |
Wow, looks like you had a great race with great fun! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun! Great race and what way to refuel! :)
ReplyDeleteWoohoo, that's a great time considering all. I will have to add that race to my list, it's such pretty country over there and I've never run a race there before. Must do. Congratulations!!!
ReplyDeleteI am doing Slacker, but probably just easy because I have the Leadville Heavy Half the weekend after and that race will probably kill me so I don't want to go into it with trashed quads from Slacker. We'll have to meet up for a post-race celebratory adult beverage, yes??? :)