Hobble Creek Half Marathon - 2014
Hopefully I will come back and reflect a little more on this later. In a nutshell, it was a pretty good race for me. Not terrific, but pretty good. I'm happy with it. My best half of the year which should be expected this late in the season after what I feel has been a pretty consistent block of summer training. I felt good, but not fantastic. Overall, I think its my third best half marathon time behind two faster performances in 2012. It was about 52 seconnds slower than my 2012 Hobble time (my PR). I guess its hard to be super excited about a race like this when in the back of your mind you think that a PR could have possibly been in the cards. Oh well.
Fun morning. Lots of solid races run, including Brett Hales (1:03!), Jason Holt (1:06), Matt Poulsen (1:08), Mike Nelson (1:08), and several others. I finished 7th overall. Felt good and was picking off people through about mile 10. Was closing the gap on Mike until about then, but just couldn't muster any pursuit speed to bridge the last 30 seconds.
Did about 3.5 miles of cooldown with Mike, Matt, Reed, Jason, and Jeff. Then ~4.5 more on my own.
Spent serveral hours boating with the family at a busy East Canyon Reservoir. Very fun time well spent. Because of everyone's schedules, I didn't have the time to bike up to the lake (as I would have preferred to), but was able to get 50 miles riding back home from the lake afterwards. It was the first time I had ridden up Big Mountain coming from the north. Good hill. Overall not as hard going that direction compared to coming from the south, but still a quality ride with a fair amount of climbing. The hours in the heat in the boat compensated for the easier course :)
Finished off the day with a quick trimming of the lawn and a good sports massage.
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