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Comments: I pretty much followed my plan. Was conservative at the start. Opened up a bit once we got on main road to head down to buendia. Mentally kept the brakes on myself all the way down. Measured my pace, trying to stay as close to what I thought was probably a 8:45 mile pace (was closer to 8:30), and always tried to keep feeling OK, not to get in distress with heart-rate or my hamstring. So, I was always monitoring my signals. The Skyway was the great unknown, felt lonely up there, in the dark, heading to the turnaround, as the sun was not up yet. More "hilly" than I envisioned, but not bad either. Drank at my first water station, just before the turnaround point. From them on, took water at just about every station, while jogging slowly through them. Did not walk until later. I tried to focus on myself, and not on the runners near me, did not want to get into a race with them, just wanted to monitor myself. MY LEFT HAMSTRING "hurt" from the very first step of the race. That was a disappointment, as I had not run in 7 days in the hopes of having it rested. Did not work. More on that below. At Km 16, just before coming off skyway, I still felt good, but was starting to lose basic energy. Once we got off skyway and got back down to Buendia, at around 1:28 or so, I started to feel the beginnings of fatigue, and I noticed that my stride was shortening. By km 17 was going into slowdown phase, by km 18 was now clearly running to get to next water station. At km18 (corner of Makati Avenue), I walked for 1:20 to get myself back in one piece, to recompose/focus myself). I got down to the bottom of the Ft boni EDSA overpass, and I stopped for water, and walked again. Met Micheal Grandinetti, we walked and jogged our way over the bridge, and with about 1300-1400 meters to go, we got into a basic jog rythm that got better as we moved closer to the finish....finished up well, though tired and my hamstring was truly sore. What would you do differently?: Go into the race with a healthy left hamstring. I believe that it cost me a fair amount of pace on the return back to the finish, as it was getting weaker and weaker, and the pain was getting deeper. For sure, I was running with one leg firing less effectively, if at all. Not a good thing. At the pace that I hit the 10 mile mark, I thought that I should have been able to hit 1:55-1:56 range...but the hamstring cost me, towards the end. Also cost me in the long run that I was not able to do in preparation for this event. I feel that I was one long run away from being a bit more effective after km18...should have felt at km18 the way that I felt at km16....would have extended my endurance, just a bit. That was the 1:30-1:40 training event that I could not do, due the injury. Had I done it, my finish would have been better from Km16 on....  Post race
Warm down: No warm down....immediately stiffened up, and just went home and rested all day. Which was the best part of the day! What limited your ability to perform faster: See above notes on left hamstring. Event comments: Time to regroup with the injury. Focus on resting it, then rehab exercises, and then running again. Ive gotta find a way to at least be able train on it twice a week to prepare for 10km run at end of Standard Triathlon...that's the goal, not a half-marathon. Though if the situation presents itself again to run one, and IM FEELING GOOD IN BOTH LEGS, I will do it. But now is the time to recover and set a protocol for getting my leg back to normal. In meantime, will work hard on my swim strokes, and continued spinning/biking. Need to have some fun long bike sessions for a while anyway. Last updated: 2010-02-06 12:00 AM
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What I did right: Night before, at 630-7pm, ate my last meal. Had pancit with one egg. (I had had a small corn dog with chips at about 3 pm at ISM Family Fun day). Drank a glass of wine. Maybe two beers before going to bed at around 9-10. Woke at 12, 1, 2, finally 3, but this was expected. Ate two granola beers with cup of coffee on way to run. My eating plan was just right, felt ok at the start. Also, I went number two 3-4 times the day before, so I was pretty much emptied out. Did not need to go at 3-5 in the morning the next day. At the start line, felt a slight pang in stomach, but no real need to go. So I was ready. My eating plan felt right.
What didnt work: staying out in the Barrio Baretto two nights before the race. Did not get enough sleep, and felt washed out the next day (that familiar feeling). I really needed a "decent" night's rest, and I didnt get it. Might have cost me a little bit at the tail end of this race.
No warmup. In fact, I sat on the ground as much as possible at start line, until the 10 minute warning. Then hitched up my knee braces, kept fooling with my laces, and finally got ready to go. My hydration plan was great. One small bottle of water at wakeup, and another in the 30 minutes leading up to race. I felt good hydration at the start. I did do some very slight, gentle stretching with my left achilles about 15-20 before the start. Knowing that the start would be slow, I was not concerned about warming up, and I wanted to keep pressure off of my left hamstring.