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I ran the Tipperary Hill Shamrock Run 4 miler in Syracuse on Saturday. It was my first race since the Buffalo Marathon in May. It was great to be back with a group again, and I’m looking forward to the spring racing season here.

I missed getting my PR for four miles by 1 second! I felt pretty good, but even though I’ve been running a lot in Syracuse, but I was not ready for the hills on this course. My splits were 6:40, 6:54, 7:56(!), and 7:39. This is why I hate short races– my cruise control doesn’t work. Mile 3 featured some of the steepest hills I’ve ever run. My total time was 29:21 (I ran a 29:20 at a race in Central Park a few years back– that race, of course, wasn’t too hilly), average pace was 7:16/mi. I wanted to break 28 minutes, but I guess that’s a goal for next year. The hills in Schiller Park, near our new house, will be a great training ground.  I finished 206th, which put me just about in the top 10%, but there were some superfast folks out there.

This was the first run I’ve posted in a while– mostly because my Garmin GPS wasn’t compatible with my Mac until recently, and I’m happily without a PC laptop from work. All my recent runs are up now, including my first couple of 5+ mile runs in months. I’m feeling great, and hope to be back up to some respetable weekly milage in a few weeks (I’m at about 15 now, hope to be up to 25 soon). Once I’ve got my base back, I can start training for NYC again– this time less ambitiously. I received my guaranteed entry email a few days ago, now I just have to shell out again.