Cleveland Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon

Goal was 1:22 or better. Plan was to start off at 6:15 miles until mile 10 and then try to pick up the pace. 1st 2 miles were mostly downhill, so was able to put some time in the bank without hurting myself. Everything was going well until the big hill at the end of mile 9. Then it was followed with a long uphill over a bridge back into downtown. That section killed my hopes of picking up the pace. I was finally able to recover from the hills by about mile 12 and then just gave it as much as I could to try to make up for the time lost on those hills.
When I crossed the finish line, the clock said 1:22:05 so I thought I had missed my goal be a few seconds. Luckily, I forgot about the slight delay to start the race which made my official chip time 1:22:00.

Not much I could do during the race, the problem was lack of hill training.

Stretched a little and drank everything in sight.


Lack of hills near me. Not much opportunity to train on hills.


This was my first race that had a huge attendance. It was fun to be a part of the energy from the large crowds.