We did it! ING Half Marathon in under 2.5 hours!

Monika and I did it! We finished the ING Half Marathon in 2 hours and 24 minutes!

Some pictures from the run are posted on my mobile blog here:

http://davehudsn.blogspot.com/

Here is the official time: (click to enlarge)

Last long run before the half marathon

We ran our last long training day before the half marathon today. 10.3 miles in 2 hours and 11 minutes. I plotted out a fantastic route - it still has plenty of hills, but its spread out a bit more with no major (i.e. 1 mile stretches) of uphill.

Here is a link to the course - the whole course in google has "street view", which is a great feature in trying to lay out running courses:

Click Here to View in Goolge Maps

I think we are ready for next weekend - our goal is to finish in under 3 hours.

Here is today's run:

Spring has sprung - our first 9 miles!

I'll keep this short and sweet as i'm exhausted and its time for bed! The weather has finally gotten warmer and Monika and i got to do our first outside run today as part of our half marathon training. We did 9 miles and though our pace was a bit slowed by some serious hills (see elevation changes below) we kept it to 1 hour and 50 minutes. I'm looking for a better route for our 10 miles next weekend! One mile of all uphill was a tough.

(click below to view full size).