EVENT : Saddleback Memorial Half-Marathon 2006 DATE: Monday, May 29, 2006 LOCATION : Laguna Hills, CA RACE BEGAN : 7:30 am FINISH TIME : 02:16:05 COURSE : Route RESULTS : Results Page COMMENTS: This was my first race since the 400 m dashes in high school. Still determined to one day run a marathon, I figured that this would be a good gauge, and Sister #1 came up with another one of her hard-to-resist hair-brained schemes to run this. I started training in late March, so basically two months prior. I was using the Hal Higdon program found here . Prior to all of this, the most I had really run was three miles. Only 10.1 to go. Most of my training runs were in the morning before class, and by morning, I mean I was out of bed by 5:30 am some days and was all cleaned up, refueled, and in class by 8:30 am. The weather was often cold to the point that my arms would numb during my runs, but things started to change as May came. I had to start wearing hats on my runs. Race day was VERY hot, p
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