The results are in

Having been dealt a gentle slap on the wrist for failing to provide a race update (hat tip to MRM), I am here to remedy that oversight.

We both finished. But it was hot. Too hot.

I didn't do quite as well as I had hoped / planned / trained for. I bettered last year's time, but only by a hair. I certainly can't say I demolished it. But still, I finished. So there's that.

J-P finished too, but was bummed that he didn't manage to better his time. But, as I keep reminding him, when you're already running at warp speed, it's really difficult to improve very much.

Although I hate to blame the heat for our rather disappointing results because it just seems like so many excuses, it's hard not to. After all, we trained our butts off this year, and our finishes definitely didn't reflect that. And it was clear that the heat affected a lot of people -- many walked for long stretches, as I did, and others sat or lay in the shade on the side of the course to cool down -- so it wasn't just us.

The one upside is that our finishes have motivated us to keep it up and train for another one. Maybe we'll see if there's a half in November. In Anchorage. Where it's nice and cold.