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My last half marathon of the spring season is 6 days from today. The Cap City Half Marathon will be my 3rd half this spring and 13th half overall. I have learned a lot about myself and my body over the past 4-5 years of running, but there is always more to learn. My current quest involves figuring out why I have been getting headaches after my longest runs and races. After the Xenia Half Marathon I thought it may have had to do with outside temperature and the speed at which I ran the race. That theory was squashed when it was much cooler last week at the Earth Day Half Marathon and the temperature was 20 degrees cooler. I still felt like crap for the better part of the day despite all I did to try to prevent that.
It was…
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