2:48:17

I finished the Hampton's Half Marathon (in the rain) in 2 hours, 48 minutes and 17 seconds. It's not fast for most runners, but it's the best I've done so far. While I'm happy that I finished within the time frame that I wanted to finish in, I also feel I could have done better. My legs started to feel very tight in the last two miles. I'll have to start doing a lot of flexibility training. I'm confident that if I had done that in the last couple of months it would have made a big difference in my performance yesterday. My next planned race isn't until January 2009 and that's a FULL marathon. While I was running yesterday, in those last two miles I found myself thinking "Do I really want to tackle a full marathon? At this rate, I'll be on my feet for close to 6 hours. Who wants to be on their feet for six whole hours?" For the life of me I couldn't manage to convince myself that doing a full marathon actually is a good idea. But alas, I already paid the entrance fee.