Bank of America Gasparilla Half-Marathon - Run


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Tampa Bay, Florida
United States
Bank of America
68F / 20C
Precipitation
 		Total Time = 00m
Overall Rank = 456/1769
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 56/134
Pre-race routine:

Heh. Woke up 4:15, scared the hell out of the in-laws by dropping my cell phone in the trash can by accident, then showered, dressed and went downstairs (Hyatt) to meet and get breakfast.

Breakfast: 1 red bull, one diet pepsi, two cliff blocks, and 2 cinnamon rolls (thank you Cavu9 for that o-so-dilectible breakfast selection!!!). I'm gonna be a friggin champion today!!!
Event warmup:

Walked from Hyatt to the starting corralls, about 5 min walk. Rain let up quite a bit, so I discarded my speed-skating baggie. Hung out with Chris, Wendi, Mike, Ken, Trix, Sue, and a couple others wondering why the hell I wore sunglasses for a race that started at 6AM in the rain. Dumbass.

Also discussed the finer points of southern speech, such as the subtleties even too subtle for some 'necks to notice between "pitcher" and "picture", "boiled" and "bold", etc.

Oh, and we stood around in Wendi and Trix's pee.
Run
  • 1h 55m 12s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 08m 47s  min/mile
Comments:

Trixie rocks. And it took us 11 miles to perfect the FITPHD "Woot, Woot!!!". And we didn't even get it right, it was the cop car that finally did it right. We suck as southerners - but take a pitcher, we're the next big thing. :) :)
What would you do differently?:

1) Sleep beforehand
2) Not be sick
3) Run further than a long of 7 miles at some point before the race

Post race
Warm down:

Walked through the medal chute, grabbed my parachute and found Aaron, Haley, and Chris next to the BT balloon, cooler and wind tunnel and froze our asses off. Used fruit to mimic our equipment, dumped like 14 beers on the ground, and had a frigging GREAT time making fun of ourselves and mugging for the camera, the crowd, and cutting up.

A BIG, BIG thankyou to Haley and Aaron for awesome jockstrapping. Fun peeps, good times, and they came well prepared. Except that aaron had to keep giving up his clothing (willingly, i might add) and haley was wearing a circus midget's track jacket. :)

What limited your ability to perform faster:

Lack of training, wind, being sick, cold temps, backtracing 0.2 mi during the race to say hi to some BT'ers, lack of training. And not enough training.

Event comments:

Awesome event, great weekend, good times. Trixie had to pee. We rocked.




Last updated: 2005-12-03 12:00 AM
Running
01:55:12 | 13.1 miles | 08m 47s  min/mile
Age Group: 56/134
Overall: 456/1769
Performance: Average
Held a pretty steady pace with Trixie. Let it slip up to 9's early, then brought it back down a little towards the end. Since I was sick and trix wasn't feeling it, we decided to run at a comfortable pace. We did take a 2:30 break so that Trix could produce one, small, miniscule skittle en route. Very disappointing performance in the blue room if you ask me.
Course: Flat, fast, lotsa puddles and curbs and poles that were good for trying to hip check people into. Other notables: mile .5 - slippery bridge. mile .6 - dead possum in the road. Very close call with this forest pizza. mile 4-5 - out and back onto a point on Davis Island, very cool to see all the BT'ers either coming or going. miles 10-13 on Bayshore Boulevard - another out and back mile 10 - Sue Ott flashing the pearly whites and encouragement. Thanks, Sue!!!
Keeping cool Average Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Average
Mental exertion [1-5] 4
Physical exertion [1-5] 2
Good race? Ok
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? No
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Average
Race evaluation [1-5] 4