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Race Report: First time racing a half. Came in going for the win. Looked at past results and saw it took about 73min to win so I figured if I was lucky and was the only person to take advantage of it I could run mid to low 72s and take it away. Knew Trevor Van Ackeren was doing the Hat Trick but figured Gillette took enough out of him in the 5 and 10 yesterday. Apparently not. So from the gun it went out fast. Bryn Mawr RC guy (Darryl Brown) took it out hard from the start. I was taken aback and just tried to get into a groove early. Was grinding with last years winner (Ian Walsh) for a long time trying to close the gap on him when we could. Wasnt till a little after 10k 11k in that we finally caught up. Kept up the tempo for a long time at much faster than expected. Have a ton of splits I could give but the one that stuck out to me was 5 miles in around 26:50. and then 9 miles in 48:30s. I knew we were rolling because that was essentially what I ran at Diamonds which was 5:23avg. Tried to get water at around 8 miles, splashed the cup at me and got a face full of gatorade. not exactly thirst quenching and irritated my eye for the next half mile. Wasnt till about mile 9 that trevor caught up to the front pack and made it a 4 man race. Ian dropped off soon after 9 miles, the tempo started to pick up. I figured at this point I have to go for it, its way too late to just back off even though I wasnt planning on racing pretty much all out. Mile 12 trevor put on a hard surge on the down hill and we ran a 4:55 or faster dropping Brown. Got to half a mile to go neck and neck and he went for his final push. I was gassed, the clutch wasnt working to get me into a higher gear. Did what I could but couldn't hang on. Ended up second in 69:44 (+13sec behind first). Well I wasnt too happy to lose but fuck, my goal for philly was to break 70 and I just did it. Fitness is there and still have 5 weeks to prep to give it another go. Wish I came away with the W but had a ton of fun with it and cant be ashamed to lose to that caliber of a runner when I expected to run about 2 min slower. Recovery and back to training to get my ass on a flatter course and hit another PR. 

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