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Comments: What a beautiful day! The weather was awesome and the cherry blossoms were in peak. A perfect day for the first race of the season! The goal I had been working on this winter was to break 8 minute miles at this race. I spent most of March sick, however, and my training seriously suffered. I decided to start this race with an 8 minute mile pace and see what happened. After the first couple of miles, I knew that breaking 80 minutes was not going to happen for me. I settled in to an 8:30 mile pace. I stopped on mile 7 for a quick bathroom break, something I had never done before. I swore that I would never do this, but my bladder offered me no choice. It cost me a couple of minutes. Miles 8 & 9 hurt. I had never run at this pace this long before and my time started to slip. Mile 10 hurt too, but I knew that I was almost there and picked up the pace. During those 3 miles I cursed myself and questioned whether I should be racing this distance. 10 seconds after crossing the finish, I was ready to sign up for another race. Mile 1 - 8:20 - 155 avg Mile 2 - 8:15 - 169 avg Mile 3 - 8:17 - 177 avg Mile 4 - 8:23 - 175 avg Mile 5 - 8:23 - 175 avg Mile 6 - 8:29 - 179 avg Mile 7 - 10:36 - 173 avg <- Bathroom stop Mile 8 - 8:39 - 177 avg Mile 9 - 8:48 - 177 avg Mile 10 - 8:16 - 177 avg  Post race
Warm down: Light stretching. Ate two mystery muffins, two bottles of water, 1/2 banana, and a cup of gatorade. Walked around, talked to friends, checked out the cherry blossoms. What limited your ability to perform faster: Lost a lot of fitness over the past five weeks due to illness. Event comments: Very well run race. A ton of volunteers, great transportation options to the event, plenty of water on the course. Last updated: 2006-04-02 12:00 AM
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Sunny
Overall Rank = 3537/10655
Age Group = M39
Age Group Rank = 1434/2879
Up at 5:30 and had 1/2 a banana, a few bites of a Power Bar and a bottle of water. Took the subway downtown and caught a shuttle bus at Metro Center to the race start. There were a ton of buses and getting to and from the race site could not have been easier. A++ job on transportation for the race.
At the race start I hit the porta johns before the lines got long. Sipped my water and took a light 1/4 mile run.