OK, all done (again).
It was H-O-T hot out there today, and as a result, I'm not thrilled with my unofficial Garmin time of 2:45 in today's Seafair Half Marathon. The temperature at the start was about 70 degrees and it was probably 80 when we finished.  Too damned hot for a run like that.  My time is about 6 minutes faster than last year, which is notable because a) the aforementioned heat really sucked, and b) according to the Garmin, this year's course was about 1000 feet more hilly than last year's course.  Hard to imagine, but there it is.  I was hoping to take 20-30 minutes off my time from last year, but the heat just made that impossible.

I'm not unhappy with the results given the heat but I know I can do better, so there's that stupid little voice again...

Read all about it by cutting and pasting this URL (because Livejournal apparently forgot how to insert links): http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6113949

And I finished, which was goal #1.  Goal #2 didn't happen; and now, I wait for the official results to see about goal #3.  It looked like pretty much everyone else was getting hammered by the heat so maybe I've still got a shot at it.  But first, ibuprofen.