Stratton Faxon Greater Danbury Road Race
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Stratton Faxon Greater Danbury Road Race - RunHalf Marathon
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Comments: Tale of two races - the first 10K I logged ~46 minutes according to the watch and felt great. We turned the corner to come up the hill and ran into wind (someone told me later ~20 mph in our face?) and a longer hill than I had expected. I started getting a concerning spasm in both my upper calves around mile 10 which scared me enough to walk a little bit. In hindsight i should have 1) drank water earlier to mitigate and 2) run through it, but I'd never felt that twinge before and I got worried. Maybe lost 2 minutes to it, though, nothing nuts. This was a hard course and I'm still learning longer distances, so really, I'm pretty happy with everything. What would you do differently?: Hydrate! Also, I paced off of others on the hills, and in retrospect could have gone harder (spasms aside) and been stronger. I need to use my leg strength as an asset more than I did, I was having a lot less difficulty on those hills than some skinny chicken leg runners were despite being heavier. Post race
Last updated: 2013-04-08 12:00 AM
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