Half Marathon from.....

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I ran my 3rd post-partum half marathon this past Sunday.  It sucked.

I had demonstrated around a 2:00 - 2:01 half marathon time 2 weeks ago during a training run so I was pretty excited and hoping to do well.  My plan was to run 9:00 min/mile which would give me some room to hit a 2:00 and hopefully be a little under.

Well......... race morning was awful.  73-ish degrees, 98% humidity and sunny.  I was sweating just standing at the start line.  I ran my goal pace for the first 6-7 miles, but it went downhill from there when the sun really started shining.  I walked about a minute per mile of the last 4 miles.  My average pace was over 10 min/mile for the second half.  I almost threw up 3 times.  Ouch.

I finished in 2:08:31.  Yuck.

The next morning (Monday) it was 62 degrees, 50% humidity, cloudy.  Suck it mother nature... not funny.

My hopes of another sub-2:00 half marathon will have to wait a little longer.