Amsterdam Half Marathon - Race Report (Finally sub2 hours!)

This is my second half marathon in an official race. Last half marathon that I ran was 2 hours, 6 minutes, so my personal best is improved by 8 minutes.

Even though I run regularly and build the endurance in the last couple of years, I'm not in my fittest form lately. You just can not out-run a bad diet, so before the race my original plan is just stick to 06:00 pace/kms.

Once we started the race the first 5k fely very easy even though I was running in my threshold level. Kept that 5k pace (almost) and 10k was gone. Between 10k and 15k was also similar, but between 15-21k was not my best. This is mostly because of my gained weights (+10 kgs last year), and my urge to skip long runs.^guilty!, though, I've managed the keep the pace around 05:50, and don't drop to 06:00 levels much.

At the end of the day, I ran the Amsterdam half marathon sub2 hours, and I'm pretty happy about it. I should fix my diet and train better, then this numbers will improve faster, for sure!