Lake Wobegon Marathon - RunMarathon


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St. Joseph, Minnesota
United States
45F / 7C
Precipitation
 		Total Time = 3h 24m 30s
Overall Rank = 32/244
Age Group = 3539
Age Group Rank = 9/23
Pre-race routine:

Not much. Got up at 4AM, had two peanut butter toasts and head off from home for the one-hour drive to St. Joseph
Event warmup:

Little bit of stretching in the high school gym.
Run
  • 3h 24m 30s
  • 26.2 miles
  • 07m 49s  min/mile
Comments:

I came to the race to run with a 3:30 pacer. i started of a bit faster and figured...what the heck, why not to run at the pace that I train at. So, i kept the 7:45-7:50 pace and was wondering how my legs will hold. this year, i had never run more than 16 miles and i really wanted to tes how my legs would do past this marker. and they held, and i kept running.

from mile 10, i felt a bit tired. but continued running at the same pace. i was really not getting any more tired until about 22nd mile when i started having those internal negotiations. the last two miles really hurt.

i could not eat much. i only had two gels, 4 pretzels and a cup of Gatorade at every aid station. for the first time ever, i felt like i could not really digest. good there is enough fat on my body to burn.

i lost a pin from my BIB belt 300 yards from the finish and wasted 30 seconds looking for it. i am not sure why i was doing that. 300 yards efore hte end, what was i thinking?
What would you do differently?:

try for Boston perhaps. But then, this was my training run for IM.
Post race
Warm down:

4 slices of pizza, 3 bottles of water and off home

What limited your ability to perform faster:

i was not planning to run this fast.

Event comments:

i will come back and qualify for boston.




Last updated: 2011-05-15 12:00 AM
Running
03:24:30 | 26.2 miles | 07m 49s  min/mile
Age Group: 9/23
Overall: 32/244
Performance: Good
1st mile 7:47 13.1 mile 1:41:46 14mil 6:54 15mil 7:46 16mil 7:44 17mil 7:34 18mil 7:46 19mil 7:50 20mil 7:47 21mil 7:58 22mil 7:45 23mil 7:50 24mil 8:04 25mil 7:50 26.2mil 9:47
Course: Flat except the first mile and a little climb at about mile 10
Keeping cool Good Drinking Not enough
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall:
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5]
Good race? Yes
Evaluation
Course challenge Too easy
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Average
Race evaluation [1-5] 4