12 Miles done, no problem for the half

Did 12 miles on Sunday. Expect that I was coughing my lungs out the whole time because I'm still sick, it was a pretty decent run. I figure if I can turn 12 miles in 2 hours while hacking up a lung, I should be able to finish the half marathon in about the same amount of time. So, I'm shooting for 2 hours on the nose. That would shave 14 mins off my last half. I'll have to hold a 9:09 pace. Which, with walk breaks at water stops, needs to be more like a 9 flat. That shouldn't be a problem, but we'll see. Unfortunately with this race being so early in the summer, I haven't had a chance to acclimate to the heat. If it's all of a sudden in the 80's, it may slow me down quite a bit. Of course the race is quite early in the morning, so hopefully it will be fine. I like to run at 50-60 degrees.

On the lifting front, I'm almost back to 100%. My elbow is still a little sore, but it's not bad. I've started my once a week heavy lift. Not to sound like I'm bragging, but I'm way stronger than I thought I was. I normally was curling 20's. So for my heavy day I started with 25's, no problem. On to 30's, no problem. On to 35's, there I was feeling it. 35's? That's almost double what I was curling on my light days. I had no idea I could curl 35's. So now yesterday I went back to my light day, and 20 all of a sudden felt really light. I can already see how this 1 heavy day a week is going to increase my overall lifting weight. I still can't bench to save my butt, but I'm working on it.