On Saturday morning I raced a 12k in Gilbert, AZ. I thought it would be a good distance (~7.5 miles) to race before the half marathon in January. My goal was to (at least) go the pace I ran my last 10 mile race in (8:17 miles). It was a cool, cloudy day and I felt great. At the halfway point I was just under 30 minutes so I made it my goal to finish in under an hour. I finished in 59:06 which averaged out to 7:56 minute miles. I even beat my 10k PR with a 49:28 at the 10k mark in the race. I felt great pretty much the entire race and am expecting good things for this half marathon!
The race was nice; a new event this year. The start time wasn't until 10am so it was nice to be able to sleep in. Keeper drove us down to Gilbert (about 35 minutes from where we live) and we met my co-coach from North Canyon there as well as one of our high school runners who decided to do the race. Everyone had a good run; my co-coach ended up getting 2nd... in the entire race!
Afterwards we decided to go out to lunch with everyone at Joe's BBQ. It was awesome!!! Then Keeper and I made a trip to LeLe's Asian Market in Chandler to stock up on stir-fry materials for the week. Perhaps the biggest perk of the race was the fact that Santa Claus handed out the awards. I did not win an award (finished 4th in my age group; missed a medal by 5 seconds; d'oh!!!) but my co-coach won 2 awards. The prizes were $50 gift cards to Sushi Roku at the W hotel in Scottsdale. My co-coach gave Keeper and I one of his gift cards. Since the gift card expires on New Year's, we pretty much had to go this weekend. We decided that $50 at this expensive place could get us....appetizers or lunch. We were too tired to go out last night, so we opted for lunch after church today. Yummy!!!! Pics are (top) me (in the middle) finishing the race, my co-coach accepting his award, and (bottom) our student runner posing with his medal with Santa Claus.
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