I don’t believe I wrote a race report for the Charleston Half-Marathon last year, but it was two weeks prior to my breakthrough marathon in Miami and had given me a great deal of confidence. I had “accidentally” set a half-marathon PR by 7 seconds in a time of 1:22:33 after a closing 5k of 18:55.
Going into this year’s race I had a similar goal of just running a steady tempo around what I hope to run in Boston 13 weeks from now. The night before the race I pulled up last year’s splits and thought how I might be able to squeak out another PR by a few seconds if I just aimed to run every mile somewhere around 6:15.
