Shiprock Half Marathon 2014

I ran this race last year and had lots of fun, it kick-started my life as a distance runner. Last year I got 22nd overall and 3rd in my age group with a time of 1:34:45. This year I knew I could do much much better, and that's what I did. This year I got 11th overall out of 550 with a 1:26. I broke my age group course record from  last year but I still got fourth in my age group, the reason for this was that the Dine College team were racing and my age group is 12-19. So even though my time was 8 minutes faster and my overall place 11 places better I did worse in my age group. Just goes to show that competition is constantly getting better. This year my plan was to go out slower than last year but not burn out. And it worked really well. Although my mile splits did slow down it was not nearly as much as last year.
Here is my splits
Lap 1: 6:09
Lap 2: 6:14
Lap 3: 6:22
Lap 4: 6:25
Lap 5: 6:37
Lap 6: 6:28
Lap 7: 6:35
Lap 8: 6:18
Lap 9: 6:27
Lap 10: 6:36
Lap 11: 6:44
Lap 12: 6:43
Lap 13: 6:54
Lap .1: 0:27
Last year my first three miles were 6 minute miles flat and after mile 7 were all above 7 minutes.
This course is all flat so it is fast but it is painful because of the road. It is harder on my legs than any other race I have done so far.

I was very tired afterwards.
Over all I was very happy with my race it was an 8 minute PR and lots of fun.