This was my second time running Surf City and as shocking as it was it was by *far* the best half marathon performance I have ever had. I didn’t PR, but I know that I definitely would have had my friend and I not stopped during the race to chat for 5 minutes to one of our supporters who drove from LA to Huntington Beach with some awesome signage for all the twitter runners out in the crowd. This was also my first time live tweeting during a race (I got to temporarily take over the kspacetv account to tweet pictures and observations so I am sure that slowed me down a bit as well.

Now that the LA Marathon training is in full swing, the runs have gotten increasingly longer and general overall feeling of bodily well being has… well changed. One of the things I usually struggle with when it comes for training for a full marathon is consistently doing my long runs on the weekend. My own personal fix for getting those weekend runs in is having some “side training” to rewards myself with – racing half marathons.