2010 San Dieguito Half Marathon

Going "notes" style for the first time I ran the San Dieguito Half Marathon...

Positives:

• A new PR! 1:32 and change.
• Passed a lot of people on the downhills, and towards the end of the race, including the last hill
  
• Had enough for an all out sprint at the end
• Mental confidence boost since I didn't think I had as much run fitness as compared to Wildflower last year
  
• Beautiful weather, gorgeous course
• Ran it on nearly zero calorie intake (by coincidence; it wasn't a goal)
  
• Negative splits through the race
  

Things to work on:

• Keep building the engine/get faster
• Train on more hills - one can never get enough of them, especially for IMSG
• Lose ~5 lbs(+?) by IMSG
• Be ready for 26.2 miles of concrete in 10 weeks (after a long ass bike ride)

Other

• For the first time EVER, I craved a beer after the race (although, it took 75 minutes for that craving to come about). A bunch of us made our way to the beer garden, and I sampled both of the "hoppy" beers. I think one was Green Flash, and the other was "Hoppy" something. I don't know - they could have been called Diaper and Ass for all I care. I really hate throwing anything away, but seriously, both went in the garbage after about 3 sips. Oh the horror James - let the flaming begin!