Thanks Sue.  There were a couple reasons for not doing more of the Bison runs but too late for that, the ones we did really helped however.  The marathon training already started.  It's a 24 week, run three day program and I'm now into the 7th week.  I've had to tweak it a couple times because of Kingman and Fontana but those races really help.  I now have to tweak the run days from Tue, Thur & Sat.  I started a yoga class at the gym and it is on Tue & Thur.  I just need to figure if Mon, Wed & Fri are better than Wed, Fri, & Sun.  or some other combination.  Life is so complicated. LOL!

Non-run days consist of biking and cross-training.  It's a good program for me since it's hard for me to run well two days in a row.

This is really a good fast half marathon, well for well trained runners
anyway. :) Personally, my training has been off and my longest run was under 11 miles. I did a couple runs from the top of Bison but none were more than 6 miles. The best and fastest was one Sue did with me and pushed me the whole way to Kiowa & Industrial…thanks Sue. I could have used a couple more of those but time and weather changed my plan. At any rate my plan for Saturday was to run about 11:30 for the first 5 or 6 miles then try to stick close to 12 for the rest of the way. I know that sounds slow even to me when I used to run this at 6:30-7:00 minute miles. :) My average at 6 miles was about 11:40, close enough for me since I walked thru a couple water stations to get hydrated.  About 7 miles my right foot started getting a hot spot but I was able to maintain under12:30 for the next few miles.  After about 9 my left foot started with the burning so I kept changing my stride and tried landing different.  It did help some but really slowed me to 13:13 for the last two miles.  I’m happy I was able to finish giving my lack of good training but disappointed in myself because I should know better.  Oh yeah, my finish time was 2:42:21 and 2nd in my ag.  First was 2:05:XX and there was someone after me. :)

On the good side Grandson Jimmy was 1^st in his ag for the 5K with
16:04 and 9^th overall.  Daughter, Judy PRed with 1:34:20, 1^st in her ag, Son-in-law Bob PRed with 1:59:01.  Ron finished with 2:19:33.

Both Ron & Bob were experiencing knee problems before the race, Bob also was having a hip issue.  I was having some lower back problems from doing some stuff around the house but don’t know it made that much difference for me.