Westchester Half Marathon Report

With 3 weeks to go before the NYC Marathon, I figured the Westchester Half Marathon - a somewhat boring but fairly challenging 1/2 in White Plains - would provide a good way to get one fast-ish effort in and also give me a glimpse to see how training was going. Turns out it's going pretty well. My goal was to run 1:19-1:20 comfortably...after leading the race for 6.5 miles, I was caught by the eventual winner. I stuck with him for another mile but just didn't have the turnover to keep up. I'm sure all my friends (there were about 10 of us that knew each other out there) that were shouting encouragement on the loop course helped to motivate HIM as well as it did me. I was able to finish strongly though, maintaining the sub-6:10 pace through the finish. I ended up 2nd overall in 1:20:25, which hopefully will make marathon pace seem a whole lot easier.