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Comments: I had the alarm set for 4, but for whatever reason I woke at 3 and couldn’t go back to sleep. I decide to get up and do my business. This is really bad, but I didn’t know what I wanted for breakfast. I ended up with a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, small bag of potato chips and a fried egg. I got to the race start by 6 and I was ready to go by 645. Up to that point I didn’t know how I felt about running today or if I would finish the race. I placed myself with 530 pace group and hoped for the best. The pace group leader planed was to walk a minute every half mile and at the aid stations. I was all for this! One mile to four was very uneventful. Pace was good, in fact we were a head of our pace, I assume the pacer wanted to bank some extra minutes for Veyo hill. At mile 3 natural call and was glad I was a guys as I knew all the port potty during the first 5 miles would be occupied and I didn’t want to wait in line. I ended up going by a big tree and didn’t lose too much time from the pacer group. At mile 6 I felt a cramp coming up on my right calf. It never hit me hard to the point I had to stop, but it did keep me worried that a cramp could happen. Especially so early in the race. Also we had a nice tail wind the first eight miles. I got to Veyo hill and we walked up the hill. I need to learn to power walk faster. As the pace group got a head me on that section. By mile 10 I caught up with the group and still felt group. From mile 14-18, I was in my “runner high”. I kept telling myself to control that pace and not run any faster as I know the last eight miles was going to hurt. By mile 19 my calves were on the edge of cramping. I was able to get some Ben Gay on them and it kept me going. At mile 21, I turned on my gps (app – 360life) on my phone, so my wife would know when to arrive at the finish line. With 3 miles to go, I seriously thought I could finish under 5:26. However at mile 24, my calves finally seized to the point I had to stop running and stretch out the cramp. My heart sunk as I watched the pace group pulled away from me. I kept on walking and after a minute or so, I was back on track with my running. With a mile left, I was able to catch my group and finish with a new PR by two minutes. Run Pace 1-11:49 2-12:16 3-11:53 4-11:52 5-12:22 6-11:55 7-12:06 8-14:54 9-12:38 10-12:32 11-12:38 12-12:06 13-11:18 14-12:14 15-11:51 16-11:48 17-11:56 18-13:24 19-13:48 20-12:10 21-11:54 22-12:29 23-12:53 24-12:27 25-13:49 26-13:18 What would you do differently?: I need to commit on training for the marathon. Need to get those long run in.  Post race
Warm down: Got my finisher medal and went home to get a well deserved ice bath. Event comments: With the lack of training/mileage I did for this race, I’ll take what I got. Great Course. I alway enjoy running this race. Who's knows I may do this again. Last updated: 2012-06-26 12:00 AM
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I had high hope for this race at the beginner of the year as the year before I had finally PR. I felt I had my training run in check. I turned in my application in May and kept my condition in check with some swimming, biking & running till July as well as most of august & september, as my training for the marathon would start. At least that was the plan.
Well in June I had a family vacation, I didn’t have a race till end of September. My mine wasn’t motivated to train for the marathon. However in the mean time I found a great group of guys to ride with. I started to put more time on the bike instead of running. I was able to put in two long runs a 10 miler on the treadmill and a 15 miler two weeks from the race and that killed me (physically) just to make 15. I was very tired for this race and was hoping to just finish the race.