Zooma Annapolis Half Marathon

This was our second "Inaugural Event" this year, and turned out to be a very nice smaller event. Pretty course, starting at the Navy/Marine Corps Stadium, going past the Naval Academy, across the Severn River, out the Baltimore-Annapolis Road, then onto a "rail trail" on the roadbed of the Baltimore-Annapolis Railway. Several miles on the B-A Trail, then back-track to end at State Park before recrossing the Severn.

Course map at http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/md/annapolis/209549241453

Photos are at http://adobe.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=d4oq73e.93kipfre&x=0&y=-ieqda5&localeid=en_US

More detailed description of the event is best summarized by this email sent to my coach via Blackberry while Naomi was driving home:
Coach, there is a lot of good to be said for the Zooma event today.
1st - Naomi had a good race (We were concerned about her endurance after her hospital stay in Nepal.)
2d - I proved to myself that going 5 weeks with no training, then doing the MChalfM & following that 2 weeks later with a Zooma Half Marathon is not the way to have great times. The good news there is that you don'thave to give me the lecture about it.
3d - Naomi was willing to slow down for me.
4th - The course was .14 miles longer than the advertised 13.1 (Event chair assures me it's USATF certified as 13.1 miles, so my Garmin must be reading long.)
5th -Wearing a TNT singlet with your name on it results in lots of encouragement, especially from the TNT Baltimore Chapter water stop crew.
6th - We still managed some decent if not wonderful times, on a prettycourse, at a nice & well run smaller event.

In other words, we both recommend it for next year.

Tom & Naomi

Sunny, 70deg, 90%humid, C shoes
1-15:14 1.04mi. 14:42pace
2-15:06 1.02mi. 14:47pace
3-15:06 .97mi. 15:34pace
4-15.11. 1.03mi. 14:48pace
5-15:10. 1.01mi. 15:03pace
6-14:50. 1.00
7-14:48. 1.00
8-15:43. 1.01 15:30pace - &removing rock from shoe
9/10-30:19. 2:0015:09pace
11-15:10. 1:00
12-15:13. 1.02 14:54pace
13-14:45. 1.02. pace14:32 Got the negative split
13.1-1:38

Total 3:18:19 13.24mi