No suSPENCE in this half marathon!

For his last long run of the summer training cycle, before preseason begins tomorrow, team captain Spencer Johnson won his hometown half marathon in Bristol, CT – by almost 10 minutes. As you can see by his email race report and splits, the beginning of the race was fast, but the soupy humidity and the killer hill toward the end of the race turned this into quite a final summer workout before preseason. Nicely done, Spencer!

Here’s his race report and splits:

I did the Bristol Half Marathon yesterday, and I got first place in 1:17:50 out of 189 runners.  Second place got 1:27:31.  It was extremely hot but I had a good time, here are my splits from my Garmin watch so they might not be 100% accurate since it's a watch but it's a good ballpark!  As you can tell by the splits, miles 7-11 were much slower and that's because they were all uphill which was brutal.  I read one article saying this is one of the hardest courses in CT because of this huge hill, so #KillTheHill was a popular hashtag on social media.  

Mile 1: 5:11

Mile 2: 5:22 

Mile 3: 5:45 

Mile 4: 5:44 

Mile 5: 5:35 

Mile 6: 5:42 

Mile 7: 5:55 

Mile 8: 6:22 

Mile 9: 6:38 

Mile 10: 6:59 

Mile 11: 6:16 

Mile 12: 5:44 

Mile 13: 5:30 

.1= 67 (not sure if the .1 is correct)