Petersburg Historic Half Marathon - Run

I started in the 2:30 pace group, wasn't sure I would hang with them. Was going to take all cues from my legs cause this build has been rough. Ever since the marathon in 2013 my legs have NOTHING--today was no exception. I knew the course was going to be hilly and banked oddly because I had run the battlefield enough times to know it is not a "fun" road in terms of it's ease. Once I got into the battlefield and turned onto the tour road I could hear the musket fire of the reenactment. Not a lot of it going o, but enough to get a taste of it. Most of the rest of that road was just up and down, turns and crazy banked roads.
Got out of the battlefield and turned onto some side roads then out to a main road. Great job on the road closures. Our side of the road was fully closed--they put traffic in both directions on the other side of the median. There were some irritated drivers, but none were ugly at least.
Somewhere around mile 9 both my achilles were screaming. I stopped to stretch them but could tell they had reached their maximum capacity. Kind of disappointing to have to walk it in--but the options were finish injury free or keep running and wind up back in PT.
Around mile 10 there was another reenactment going on from a Revolutionary War battle. I was greeted as I ran past that area by 4 men on horses. They offered me a ride--unfortunately they were headed the opposite direction from me or I may have considered it.
Keep walking as fast as I can--truthfully my pace didn't dramatically change from the run to the walk so it was definitely the right call. We had to pass the finish area and do another mile or so in another neighborhood before turning back to the finish. I was able to run the last 100 yards across the finish at least.

Nothing, this is all my legs had in them and I had to work with what I had.

Walked around, got my medal (coolest medal ever--based off a Civil War Medal of Honor) grabbed some water. Had some of the trainers from the gym use the stick and massage my calves/ achilles some. Food tent was empty when I got in line had to go to Wawa for post race food.


Cranky legs and wicked hills.


First time event--some bugs to work out of the system. Overall a good job. BUT placing portopotties on 2x4's on the cobblestones means that they are not well balanced and any outside motion is going to make them wobble. They didn't have the start banner up when we got there and it seemed like it was not placed right. The mile markers on the course were consistently about 100 yards after my Garmin buzzed for the mile. Running out of post race food was not good.