Red, White, and Boom! Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon

Ran with a geology prof. at the U for miles ~2-8-ish (Harvey), and he helped me to keep those first several miles slow so I still had enough in me to finish strong, with a kick. It was hot an sunny, so keeping cool was tough and it was difficult to get in enough fluids at the aid station. I downed a bottle of water at the finish with no problem. Nutrition during: took just water at the first aid station (there was no powerade - mile 2.5), two shot bloks and some water at the second aid station (mile 5ish), powerade (and water?) at mile 7.5, 2 more shot bloks before mile 10 (maybe didn't need these?), then a bunch of water and a little powerade at mile 11, I guess. "Overall" ranks are among women, and AG ranks are women 25-29. Splits:
1: 10:53
2: 10:57
3 & 4: 22:19 (think there was an aid station in there, too)
5: 11:31
6: 11:20
7: 11:50 (hill?)
8: 10:52 (parted ways with Harvey)
9: 10:19 (oops, a bit too fast maybe)
10: 11:01
11: 10:03 (started to pick up the pace)
12: 10:22
13: 9:23 (maybe I should have picked it up sooner?)
13.1: 0:53.13

Maybe not start out *quite* so slowly? Maybe next time I won't need to be quite so conservative. I should probably also calculate out how much nutrition I need. I might have taken too much and wasted some time?

Stood around eating popsicles and hot dogs and drinking chocolate milk in the shade with Matt and David, who came out to see us finish. Stretched and foam rolled a bit when I got home (after laying on the floor with Matt in front of the AC to cool off)


training, confidence


I'm glad I practiced running hills for the "mountain" in Deming Heights Park. It was early, so they probably couldn't really turn the sound system up, but I could only vaguely hear the very end of the National Anthem. Couldn't hear any announcements at all. I think that, with the heat, it would have been nice to have the aid stations a little closer together (and therefore had one or two more).