Rochester Half Marathon

Today was the Rochester Half marathon. Formerly the Holiday Inn half. I was set to run a decent race but nothing earth shattering. I had planned on starting off at an easy pace and letting things develop easily over the last few miles finishing hard but with an overall good effort. The weather was decent low 60s at the start with the humidity at 87 percent. My main focus was an easy early pace. I saw that Kelly Mortenson was there and that he has run fast in the past at this race. I knew he was in decent shape but nothing that I shouldn't be able to cover. Below are the reasons I can think things didn't go well.

1. Not sure if this is the number one reason or just 1a. Rest. I started the week off with 15 miles then 17 miles then 14 miles then a workout. I was coming off a week of very little rest. Last Saturday was my ten mile tempo, which went well. But since then I have not really had an easy day to let everything heal up.
2. The weather. I know what people are saying low 60s. Yeah I know, however. I think in the last 5 years this had to be the worst result from this race. I know that the field wasn't one of the best but some of these guys can run faster.
3. A real lack of getting up for the race. I don't feel like I was very prepared for this one mentally. I do feel a fire a will to want to run fast but it wasn't there today. I clicked off very consistent miles but nothing spectacular.

In the end this felt just like Fetzer 20k back in april. Almost exaclty the same. In fact my splits tell the whole truth

5:22/11/15/22/23/23/23/24/23/25/26/33/6:06. Very consistent after 3miles.

Changes:
I mulled over a whole bunch of changes as a result of this performance. The only one that I am going to make is lowering my mileage a bit. Keeping it at 100-105 and not worrying about how much I get in after a workout. I am going to keep the rest days to a minimum.

Back to the grind as they say. I have put it behind me and am moving on. Nothing I can change now.