login
 Run
Comments: I was looking for Kam and Rob before the start as I thought that Kam may be running around the pace I had hoped to go but with the size of the race I didn't find them. So I was on my own. When the horn went off we took off rather slowly due to the crowd size but it thinned out and I picked up steam rather quickly. After the first half mile I settled into what felt like a comfortable pace on the slight down hill. Although the HR was still in check and I was feeling good, after 3 miles I was running about an 8 minute pace and I was concerned that it may not be sustainable through the entire distance. I wanted 2 goals from the race and one was 1:53 - 1:55 finish and the other was reasonably consistant splits. So I backed off a bit and shot for an 8:30 pace. Fortunately at that pace I found I had many choices in pace booty to draft off of. My plan, nutrition wise was to live off the course with the exception of gels and salt tabs. I had planned on hitting a gel at the 4 and 8 mile aid stations and a salt tab at the 6 and 10 mile stops. Unfortunately I didn't see the aid station coming at mile 4 and was on top of it before I could get a gel opened so I grabbed the salt tab and went with that so I didn't have to stop. So I only got the one gel at mile 6, but it worked out in the end. The first half of the race seemed to click by relatively quickly, but after entering the canal path it became more of a mental challenge to hold the pace. I did have a couple of miles that the pace drifted in the wrong direction, but I seemed to be able to get my focus back and gat back to business. I know that I need to work on being comfortable being uncomfortable in these longer races. When things got tough, I would think of the comment that Dudley made after last weeks showing in the 5K and that would fire me up some. Don't want to give him a reason to repeat that! But mostly just worked on focusing on the race and getting the job done. Overall, quite pleased with reaching my goals, and my increasing ability to stay focused when things got a bit tough. Still some work to do, but progress is being made. What would you do differently?: Other than working on the weight loss thing, I am happy the way this went.  Post race
Warm down: Grabbed a water and started looking for Mike, Kam and Rob. Found them as they came into the finish area. This is where the highlight of my day came as I took a bath with Kam! :) It was nice to finish early enough that there was actually ice in the ice bath rather than the cesspool I found upon completeing the musselman! Then we grabbed some food and sat around for a bit! What limited your ability to perform faster: Nothing today! Event comments: This is a nicely run race. The people putting it on do a nice job. Last updated: 2009-07-10 12:00 AM
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
View profile
Add to friends
Go to training log
Go to race log
Send a message
View album
CONNECT WITH FACEBOOK
United States
62F / 17C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 405/1716
Age Group = 45 - 49
Age Group Rank = 38/88
This is the first race since LP that I actually had a little nervousness the night before and the morning of. Even though I was training through this and using this as the weeks long run, I felt it could be a good test of endurance that the build up to the training plan and the 1st couple weeks of the plan had provided me.
I was up before the alarm at 4:30. A little breakfast, some coffee and water. Waited for Mike to arrive and we drove up to Frontier Field. It was nice that they stadium was open rather than having to stand in line for porto potties.
Just walking back and forth between car, stadium, back to car, back to stadium for a 2nd trip to the rest room, then down to starting line. We got to the start line as the marathon was going off.