Surf City USA Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Huntingron Beach, California
United States
Kinane Events
70F / 21C
Sunny
 		Total Time = 2h 52m 18s
Overall Rank = /
Age Group = 50-54
Age Group Rank = 491/719
Pre-race routine:

We parked in Huntington State Beach and walked about 2 miles to the start nice warm up. It was very cold before the sun came up (in the 40's). Once the sun was up we didn't even need arm warmers
Event warmup:

Snail's Pace Coach Kelley Kelly led us through
Run
  • 2h 52m 18s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 13m 09s  min/mile
Comments:

Not sure why my rank didn't show up. I guess I should add this was a PR for me. I started running in October 2010 and did the Surf City 1/2 in 2011. Although I had trained, it was my first 1/2 and first real running event since I had NEVER been a runner (nor wanted to be. For 2011 I ended up very sick with the flu one weekend before the race and barely recovered by race morning. My time was so bad I may as well have walked it. I went on to do 3 more 1/2s during 2011 and earned the beach cities challenge medal, but my fastest time was 2:55:47. I had slowed on that one to run with my husband who was just recovering from being ill as well.
My biggest struggle for this 1/2 was right about mile 10 1/2 when you are just ready for it to be over and no longer care about the time, just want to finish. I had run 11 miles two weeks before and it was easy, but for some reason in race mode, you are just over it. With only my self for motivation I kind of gave up until about the last 1/2 mile when I started to really run about 10:15 min/mi and sprinted accross the finish line. When I realized my time, I did say to myself, certainly I could have made up 2 minutes.
Post race
Warm down:

Forma provided post race individual stretching by PT techs. Awesome

What limited your ability to perform faster:

It was a little warm.

Event comments:

Surf City did a great job of using social networking to keep everyone posted prior to the race day and answering questions.




Last updated: 2012-02-04 12:00 AM
Running
02:52:18 | 13.1 miles | 13m 09s  min/mile
Age Group: 491/719
Overall: 0/
Performance: Good
3 mile 35:22 average 11:48 8 mile 1:43:57 average 12:41
Course:
Keeping cool Good Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5] 4
Physical exertion [1-5] 4
Good race? Yes
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Good
Race evaluation [1-5] 4