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I'll do a full race report in a little bit once I've got photos, but the half marathon went well today.

I had a plan, stuck to it, and ran faster than I was expecting.  Everyone from my group finished, and many of them are hungry for more runs this year and next.

Now my body is taking revenge on me.  I've got a definite post run shuffle going, my inner thighs are all chafed, and I dozed off watching the footy this afternoon.  Of course, the fact that I was up at 5:00am and that I had 6 or 7 sausages at lunch with some of my work colleagues may have something to do with that.  I even had a beer before noon.

Now that this half marathon is done, I've got time to get back to other things that I had to put aside to train.  No more refraining from weights.

It was also very impressive to see some of the later runners at the back of the pack of the marathon.  There was an 80 year old man shuffling along as we had lunch in a park.  He was probably on a pace to finish in a bit over six hours.  We thought he was the last until a woman walked by accompanied by a cyclist an hour later.  It was 1:30 in the afternoon and she had been going since 7:00am.