Rock 'n' Roll Half Marathon - Run


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Virginia Beach, Virginia
United States
Elite Racing
80'sF / 0C
Sunny
 		Total Time = 2h 36m
Overall Rank = /
Age Group =
Age Group Rank = 0/
Pre-race routine:

up at 4am, outmeal and coffee, left a bit after 5 to go to ampitheater to park and get shuttle to race start, this whole process takes close to an hour, each year I say I'm going to just go to the beach and park
Event warmup:

light jogging and stretching, event started at 7am but my corral didn't go until close to 7:30
Run
  • 2h 36m
  • 13.1 miles
  • 11m 55s  min/mile
Comments:

felt good until just after mile 6, then I started having some knee pain on right, hamstring pain on left and major developing blister on my left heel
What would you do differently?:

not spend weeks remodeling a house which helped contribute to knee and hamsting issues, get new shoes, these have never felt good
Post race
Warm down:

walk through the throngs of people (20,000 runners etc), got medal, food, spent nearly an hour trying to find my husband which prevented me from meeting up with BT'rs at the race

What limited your ability to perform faster:

not sure, I came pretty close to a PR for this distance and it was a PR for this race, I was hoping to come in closer to 2:30

Event comments:

I really do like this race. The course did seem a bit more crowded this year with an increase of few more thousand runners. I'd like to see them decrease the size just a bit. You can not beat the crowd support for this race. This was my third year doing this race.




Last updated: 2005-08-14 12:00 AM
Running
02:36:00 | 13.1 miles | 11m 55s  min/mile
Age Group: 0/
Overall: 0/
Performance: Average
Course: out through Virginia Beach and finishing on the board walk
Keeping cool Average Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Average
Mental exertion [1-5] 3
Physical exertion [1-5] 3
Good race? Ok
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Average
Race evaluation [1-5] 4