Saturday, March 21, 2009

Mark it done!



Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm happy to announce I've met a personal goal of mine. Today I completed the SunTrust National Half Marathon in Washington DC.

I'll go into more detail about the race when I'm not about to fall asleep, but I will tell you that I did not meet my secondary goal of running the half marathon in less than 2 hours. That is because I ran it in EXACTLY 2 hours, down to the tenth of the second. You can see the results here which show me (search for Brian Payne) coming in 2062nd place out of 4150. So exactly 2 hours was my time with an overall average pace of 9:10 per mile. The second half of the race I was faster than the first which is kinda interesting...

Anyhow, I'm very happy with the results and I also know next time I'll post an even better number. But for now I'm beat, have sore knees, and need to go to bed so I'll fill you in on the details later.

-Brian

3 comments:

Kristen said...

Wow. Very impressive...congratulations!

Rainmaker said...

Huge congrats! You've made some very impressive progress. Keep at it!

2:00 is really dang impressive, even more so that you nailed it on the dot 2:00:00. :)

Ripx180 said...

Nice man that freaking awesome!!! That seems really fast to me for a half. Congrats and keep inspiring.