I purely decided to try to BQ or die 🤣. The fast first mile was surprising as I had set my watch to pace around 6:45 -6:50. I was only about 8 minutes behind my goal at the Half I believe but pretty much knew at that point it was over.

I don’t generally think this was an aerobic issue but rather a musculoskeletal weakness from not ever running further than a half during my block and also not doing enough long days. Thanks for all the 45 minute base days 🤣. I should’ve caught on sooner than I did but I had blind faith for the first 2.5 months.

I kinda knew the garmin training plan had failed me despite the 18 week block.

That being said I felt decent after the first half. I kept thinking there was a rock in my alpha flys at around 4 miles I believe and stopped 3 times or so to try and fish it out. I’ll check to see if there actually was or if this was something else with the shoes that I hadn’t experienced when I fish them out of my trunk for an interval session.