I guess you could say this was a breakthrough race for me. before the race i decided to go out at about a 7:00 pace and see what would happen. i was probably at a 6:50 ave pace until veyo hill where i backed off, just wanting to get to the half in decent time. hit the half in 1:33:45 so i guess i ran the second half in 1:30:20. overall i felt really good. i will have to analyze my training and try to figure out what the difference was this year it was a PR, ran a 3:17 when i was 18. i know difference wasn't long runs. key differences: more mileage a few twice a day runs GU energy gel(never used anything before) tempo runs more racing than ever before(5k,10k,halfs) didn't have much soreness on sunday morning. i told my wife that when i got out of bed i didn't feel any worse than i do every day(i usually don't feel good when i get up, feels like i got ran over in my sleep every night) | 