Lake Effect Half Marathon
The final tally was 13.19 miles @6:40 pace for a 174 HR and a 1 minute 4 second PR. Garmin gave me a TE of 5. I haven't seen that in a long time. Apparently, it was a hard effort :-) The course was an out and back along the lake that got run twice. On the 'out' direction it was a complete headwind that was blowing about 20 miles an hour. It was awful. I warmed up a little bit and then waited for the start. The jacket I brought was going to be too light, so I wore the 2014 Boston jacket instead since it was heavier. The first 3ish miles of the 'out' was rough. I was running too fast for the start, but I wasn't pacing it so much as trying to stay with people to get out of the wind. At the turn around, I immediately started overheating and before long the jacket was in my hand/arm being carried like a football. I kept switching hands, which took some juggling because my fogged over sunglasses were in the other hand....