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Comments: I ended up as a proxy for two friends who couldn't run the race due to injuries. I had my friend Sarah's timing chip on my right foot, and my other friend Ed's chip on on left. I didn't do any specific half marathon training besides upping my mileage in my regular triathlon training runs, which is what I should be doing anyway. My longest long run was 10 miles. I ran this same race two years ago with a time of 2:28:55. I had about 4-5 months to train for that and it was my first half marathon. Then there was a year where I didn't do much exercise and then I start doing triathlon training around March 2010. Shows how much fitter I am now due to triathlon training. I was hoping for under 2 hours, but considering I didn't do any major training for it I did really well. If I did this same race next year I'd expect a significant improvement again. I'd probably do the full. What would you do differently?: My friends and I got stuck back at wave 5 so it was difficult darting around lots of people. I would have liked to have started at wave 3 so I could use more of my effort moving forward instead of side to side avoiding people. Around mile 7 I took a GU gel shot, but it just didn't settle right and a mile later I was having really sharp heart burn. I didn't eat anything in the morning so that may have contributed. I think if I didn't take the GU I would have done better, which is funny. From mile 11 onward I was kind of delirious and in autopilot. I was really close to bonking. This is because I wasn't used to the distance. I only received a little over two weeks notice I was going to be participating, so I would have built a training program specifically for the race.  Post race
Warm down: Make sure I walked around to loosen up the muscles. Did a few stretches. What limited your ability to perform faster: Training and not getting used to my nutrition during the long run. Event comments: Setting a new PR is always a great feeling, especially since it's nearly 30 minutes faster! Last updated: 2010-10-06 12:00 AM
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Woke up around 5:00 and did the usual morning routine. Skipped breakfast and drove to the race site. I parked a few blocks away and took some alternate routes because traffic was horrible near the race.
I ran easy pace to the race site from the parking lot. I didn't do any stretching. I usually prefer to just warm up with a run, but I really should have done some stretching. Oh well.