I went yesterday to Madison, MS to compete in the MTC Half Marathon. It is nice course with rolling hills. The problem this year was the high temperature (70s) and humidity (1857%!) during the race. It took a toll on many runners!! You know... you expect to be running under cooler conditions in December!

Anyway, three Pine Belt pacers were there: Phillip Wedgeworth, Larry Sykes and I. Phillip and I were running the event as a tune up for the Blues Marathon coming in 4 weeks. He will be running the whole marathon; I will do the Half. Larry was there race walking.

In general, I felt good through the 13.1 miles. I just struggled a little bit between mile 5 and 6 (In fact, I still don't know why!). I covered the distance in 1:50:11 and was 33rd overall. Phillip finished in 1:54:05 and won his age group. Larry finished around 2:30:21 and was second among the male race walkers.

Let's see what is the next run in the calendar! maybe the 10K in Pass Christian or maybe I am just done for 2007!! © Pijume Diwesi Results