Glass City Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Toledo, Ohio
United States
Toledo Road Runners
53F / 12C
Overcast
 		Total Time = 1h 48m 16s
Overall Rank = 230/2347
Age Group = 40-44
Age Group Rank = 31/158
Pre-race routine:

Checked the radar upon waking up at 3:30 and it looked like we may stay dry. Tried a bit different routine to the morning and had a small amount of oatmeal at home along with the usual banana before getting on the road around 4:40. Got to U of T just after 5:30 and had a great parking spot, hit the arena for our packets and hit the toilet. When we got back to the car the vehicles were poring in. Sat in the car for about 10 or 15 minutes before getting ready to head towards the starting area.
Event warmup:

Just some short running and ITB stretching.
Run
  • 1h 48m 16s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 08m 16s  min/mile
Comments:

Lots of runners with the full and half being mixed for the start, made the first couple of miles a leap frog event. Wasn't sure what to expect and knew my training was lacking some key workouts over the last few weeks, so my goal of 1:45 was just a dream, but I figured a PR was possible.
What would you do differently?:

Not get ill three weeks out and miss some of the tougher tempo/interval work that was on the schedule.
Post race
Warm down:

Grabbed my finisher's medal and mug along with a water and headed to the car to drop it off, then I ran the course in reverse to find Karen. Helped her in and hit the snacks. Winds were picking up and things were cool so we headed to the car to head home and try and warm up.

Event comments:

We really enjoyed the race and were quite glad the weather held out though anyone on the course over 4:30 would've got wet. Hopefully they have some nicer weather next year.

Real nice course with decent food and drinks afterwards. Would've stayed to enjoy things if the weather was a bit nicer.

Saw some perfect reasons why headphones should be banned or the race needs to have folks on cycles in front of the leaders clearing the route. Due to being on a paved path with out and back, leaders of the half were coming back while at least two folks with head phones were spacing out and not hearing us yell at them to get out of the way. The two leaders that were together had to take action to go around Mr and Mrs space cadets. Kinda of wish they would've took turns running them over.




Last updated: 2010-04-25 12:00 AM
Running
01:48:16 | 13.1 miles | 08m 16s  min/mile
Age Group: 31/158
Overall: 158/2347
Performance: Good
175/1087 in the males. 1 08m 44s 1.00 miles 08m 44s /mile 2 08m 08s 1.00 miles 08m 08s /mile 3 07m 49s 1.00 miles 07m 49s /mile 4 07m 55s 1.00 miles 07m 55s /mile 5 08m 08s 1.00 miles 08m 08s /mile 6 08m 13s 1.00 miles 08m 13s /mile 7 07m 51s 1.00 miles 07m 51s /mile 8 08m 23s 1.00 miles 08m 23s /mile 9 08m 21s 1.00 miles 08m 21s /mile 10 08m 23s 1.00 miles 08m 23s /mile 11 08m 12s 1.00 miles 08m 12s /mile 12 08m 13s 1.00 miles 08m 13s /mile 13 07m 48s 1.00 miles 07m 48s /mile 14 01m 26s 0.20 miles 07m 11s /mile
Course: A beautiful course through University of Toledo campus, nice neighborhoods and along a nice flat path with a loop in an area Metropark. Just a couple of small hills with a few nice gentle down slopes in the last mile towards the finish.
Keeping cool Average Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5] 4
Good race? Yes
Evaluation
Course challenge
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Good
Race evaluation [1-5] 4