{"id":177,"date":"2017-07-30T21:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T11:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.epicmac.com\/?p=177"},"modified":"2017-09-01T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T11:50:21","slug":"run-melbourne-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.epicmac.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Run Melbourne Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 30th of July rolled around and I headed into the city bright and early for Run Melbourne. I felt pretty good on the morning, I\u2019d been clear of almost all cold symptoms for a week, except the mildly annoying cough that would take another two weeks to go away.<\/p>\n

I figured that my goal was a sub 2 hour half, so despite a less than ideal last month I started the race as planned and settled into my goal pace of around 5:40km a minute. I felt strong, until I got to 11km, then the legs said nope. With 10km to go I knew there was no way I could keep that pace for that long not matter how hard I pushed. I backed off and changed the plan to just finishing. By 18km I was completely done. I had to walk up a couple of gentle hills! I managed a slight \u2018sprint\u2019 to the finish. Got to look good for the photographers; I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d missed the sub 2 mark by 7 minutes, but somehow I\u2019d managed a 2 minute PB!<\/p>\n

I was so disappointed with not getting the sub 2 that I really didn\u2019t care about the PB.<\/p>\n

It was all the fantastic running friends, both online and locals and my wonderfully supportive, enabling wife that made me see that it was a successful run. A PB is a PB. There\u2019s always another half marathon.<\/p>\n

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Funny I should mention that. Many months earlier, early enough to get the race number 83, I had signed up for the Sandy Point half marathon. I did the 10km race here last year.<\/p>\n

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