Holy Half Marathon 2011

My jogging mate and colleague, Cat, and I have been training for a few months and entered this year's Holy Half Marathon. It's a 13.1 mi (21 km) race that is run entirely on the Notre Dame campus. Over 1000 people entered the race this year.

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Fellow chemists Forbes and Adam joined us for the challenge as well.

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Despite a fairly congested first few miles, I was pretty revved up about the event.

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At about 60% of the way, I made a few more over-takes... See the next photo too for the outcome of this attempt.

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Actually, are those in the right order? If not then... I guess that I was saving a little for a sprint on the home-straight.

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Here's the obligatory shot in front of the dome. It's a beautiful campus and I'm so grateful to Ian; he came and took heaps of photos and even offered me chocolate at mile nine!

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And here I am with metres remaining and blowing hard. I emptied the tank here and probably looked totally crazy doing it. (But loved that bit of the race the most!) Thanks Ian and especially: thanks Cat! Now let's plan our approach to the next big race in Indy.

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The times aren't out yet; I think that I ran something like 2 hours. I'm hoping that I'll be on the lower side of that mark. When I find out, I'll post it in the comments.