Wow! I had a great race on Sunday morning. I'm still trying to come to terms with it. It was totally unexpected. It was at the Ashley Can Half-Marathon in Bourbonnais. After last week's 50K, I was not going to really back off my training for the Tunnel a Hill 100 Mile in November. The 50K was used as a long training run to start the week. I ended up with a 92 mile week which I haven't done very often. So I expected that the legs would be a bit on the tired side for the half. But after opening with a 7:31 mile, I managed to continue to reel off sub-8 minute miles, including several in the 7:10 to 7:20 range on my way to a 1:37:23 finish. Ended up 7th overall and incredibly, not only 1st in my age group but 1st Masters runner.
And a funny thing happened. Someone asked me if it was a PR and I said no because I was sure I had run faster back in my younger days. So I decided to check up on it. As it turned out, I had run 20Ks and 25Ks, but didn't run my first half until I was in my 50s. It came as a great surprise then that the 1:37:23 was actually my PR beating my time at the Frankfort half by two minutes. Crazy, huh? And a especially after that 90+ mile week. The legs and body are in good shape. The key now is keeping it up without going over that line and overdoing it. Staying healthy is paramount.
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