Urban Cow Half Marathon with Pace 7:20 -- PR 1:36:01

The planned pace was 7:15 to 7:19. Normally I would

have a massage before the race, did not do it because Hideshi

went back to Japan. 

So even though I did form roller myself, and used massage machine,

I did not do much massage for my legs. Tried to schedule the appointment

with another guy Thursday and Friday, he was too busy. So for the

first a few miles, I started a little bit slow. First, I always think

the pacer was too fast, he had the pace around 7 for the first two 

miles. So I just followed him with my slower pace.  Second, 

my legs were very heavy for the first 4-5 miles. I thought I could

not do well because of that. I felt better after that. Anyway, It was 

a great run.

Started with Michael for the first mile, and I asked him to go ahead

since he is much faster. Saw Mark at the beginning of the race,

and he finished at 1:30. Ran most of the time with Christina 

for the first 5 miles. Sometimes she was ahead of me, and sometimes

I passed her. And I fully passed her after mile 5, and she finished

1:39. saw lots of other guys, Beth, Martin, Ben, Clarisa, Tara, Emily, etc.

All did a wonderful job. 

My daughter PRed at 2:06 as well. My wife regretted that she did not

run with us, and she will do it next year.

Here is the splits:

Split	Time	Distance	Avg Pace
Summary	1:35:52.6	13.20	7:16
1	7:10.6	1.00	7:11
2	7:07.2	1.00	7:07
3	7:13.6	1.00	7:14
4	7:22.0	1.00	7:22
5	7:26.3	1.00	7:26
6	7:33.4	1.00	7:33
7	7:19.9	1.00	7:20
8	7:10.8	1.00	7:11
9	7:17.2	1.00	7:17
10	7:17.9	1.00	7:18
11	7:03.4	1.00	7:03
12	7:21.8	1.00	7:22
13	7:16.5	1.00	7:16
14	1:12.2	0.20	5:59

My watch time is faster than the official time. And I ran 

another 3 miles after the race.