Running (Road) 17:00 [2]
shoes: Speedstar 6 (old)
Parked at the finish and jogged to the start as a warmup, plus a few minutes more.
Running race (Road) 3:18:32 [5] 26.22 mi (7:34 / mi)
shoes: Speedstar 6 (old)
Heart of America. Dreadful. At least it was a truly nice day for a long training run, because as a competitive effort this one sucked. Took it out easy and then settled into roughly 7:15's (though the course is so undulating, it's tough to make much sense of mile splits). Got to the half in 96, which is OK for this course, though the conditions were so good I was all the way back in 30th. Figured no big deal, run negative splits pass a bunch of folks who took it out too fast, and all is good. Except that I couldn't even hold the pace much less drop it. Not sure what the problem was (other than the obvious, that I'm fat and slow, but I had already adjusted for that with the easy 1st half pace). Certainly felt fine the first half, but there just wasn't any engine for the second half. Did move up to 22nd, but missed the 50+ win by a frustrating 26 seconds. And, the knee is toast, so I'm not sure any training value will come of it.
Sigh.