I just ran the Long Beach International City Bank half-marathon and didn’t achieve my goal, but I got a personal record. I beat my last half, the 2008 Surf City USA half by 4 minutes and 33 seconds. 1:57:26 vs 1:52:53 today. I tried to run a 1:50, but could only keep with the pacer for the first 8 miles. I saw him till about 10 miles, but I kept losing ground. I am happy that I went from a 8:57 pace to a 8:37, but it wasn’t that much better considering I ran the Surf City half in the rain. But a PR is a PR.
I was planning on getting to church on time, but it took 45 minutes to get my bag. JetBlue was the bag checker and lots of people said it makes me not want to fly with JetBlue. The Disneyland and Surf City marathon bag check process were better. I felt a little weird going to chuch with sweat pants and a white undershirt, but oh well. Well, it seems like my improvement on half marathons has tapered off a bit. I signed up for the Surf City Full Marathon in 2010. Hopefully I can beat my time of 4:21:56 (9:58 pace).