Tag Archives: half marathon

Clearwater Running & Fitness Festival Race Report

One of my favorite places to run is Clearwater Beach by Pier 60 for a variety of reasons.  Its beautiful there.  We have a nice 13 mile loop that we run frequently.  It lets us do an open water swim right after we run which is a great way to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.  And then there’s the part that people probably don’t usually like other than us crazy people – the bridges.  There are some truely massive bridges on the route as well as some gently rolling terrain on the back half of our 13 mile loop.  …

Gasparilla Distance Classic Race Report – My Half PR!

Well I did it! I can’t believe that since November, I went from frantically realizing that I was in deep trouble for my Disney marathon to reaching a really big goal of mine, which was a sub 2:10 half marathon. Everything went about as perfect for me today as I could have hoped. My legs have felt great for weeks and I just knew I had a great run in me for today. My goal was somewhere between 2:05 and 2:10. My final time was 2:04:26 which is a huge PR (personal record for you non-runners). I PRed while training …

Train on…

Well, my training is still going forward.  I won’t say its going well until I get my times down to where I am happy with them.  Right now my 11:30 minute miles are unacceptable but not surprising.  Really a combination of 6 weeks off the road and stifling heat when I do run isn’t making it easy.  I could run in the morning when its cooler but realistically I just can’t depend on myself to wake up consistently and do it.  And I don’t want to get into work later than I am now (now being around 8 – 8:30 most days).  I’ll do a morning …