Half-Marathon Run - Next up : full Monty

These are the tired faces of 1/2 marathon runners. At least 2 of us are dead beat. Mr Haroufi Radwane on the other hand looks as if he is warmed up for a full marathon.

After an 8-week training program, I was able to pull it off. yay for me. Goal was set to 130 mins, which puts me right at 10 mins for every mile over a 13.1 mile distance.
But I was able to do better than anticipated and pull off a 2 hr and 5 min deal !
Best part is the winner of the whole shabang turned out to be Moroccan runner straight out of New Mexico. Mr Youssef Lahlou :) also pulled it off. With a very painful blister, he has learned not to change anything about shoes the night of the race :).
So Congrats to all 5200 runners who participated in the race.
and Congrats to Mr Harroufi who managed to run the race in 1 hr and 3 mins and win the whole thing. That s 2 steps foe every step I make :)
More pictures to come soon !

Next up in the Full Marathon in 2009, probably in February.
Winner: