Saturday morning before Christmas Nicole and I planned to run a virtual half marathon together to practice running together for Goofy. Our friend Heather decided join, so we ran at Waterfall Glen. I had never been there before, but it is a nice running path. It is a 9.5 mile loop that is the crushed gravel path. There are some pretty hilly parts, but thankfully we ran down Big Bertha. I was a bit nervous to run with Nicole and Heather, because I tried to at Thanksgiving and they tried to kill me. Both are stronger runners than me and I just couldn’t hang. This time Nicole promised me they would take it easy. We wanted to be around a 9 minute pace.
As we started off, it was a cold day, but the sun was out and there was no wind, so it was pretty good running conditions. Nicole did a great job of keeping Heather in check and keeping the pace easy. We did one loop around and then ran an out and back portion. We ended up running 13.22 miles. The .22 miles was in honor of it being the 22nd. I ended with a time of 1:57:53 (8:55 pace). Dang near perfect! Majority of the miles were between 8:50 – 9:10. Only 2 miles were faster than that, and one of them was the last mile where it was OK to pick it up a bit.
The starburst looking loop!
Several people commented on the fact that we were wearing race bibs and was wondering what was going on. We had to explain it was a ‘virtual’ half and could be run anywhere. Then we would ‘race’ to be in the lead. I am happy to report that I took 3rd place at this race. Yes, out of the 3 of us J.
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