Country Music Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Nashville, Tennessee
United States
Competitor Group, Inc.
50F / 10C
Precipitation
 		Total Time = 1h 57m 12s
Overall Rank = 3171/17892
Age Group = Female 40-44
Age Group Rank = 111/1292
Pre-race routine:

Heart Start Healthy Heart and a banana. Cup of coffee and alot of Gatorade and Amino Build (which makes me pee wayyyy too much)
Event warmup:

Just kinda walked around. It was starting to rain pre race and scheduled to get worse quickly, so we knew it was going to be interesting conditions. Peed 3 times, then had to go like a race horse while in the corral.
Run
  • 1h 57m 12s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 08m 57s  min/mile
Comments:

Found out I was running 22 hours before the gun fired as a friend bailed due to the rain forecast (thus the Female 40-44 age group). Since I was not really in the mood to try to PR, I called Jen Wolczyk to see if she wanted a pacer for her sub 2 hour goal, she was thrilled. This allowed me to really enjoy the course, the race, the everything becasue this was a very conversational pace for me. My biggest concern was blowing up and having her think I was a dope. This is the first timne I have ever paced anybody for a race, so there was alot of pressure to be good at it.
What would you do differently?:

I think we paced the course perfectly.

If anything, maybe lie a bit about our finish times as we started in corral 11 and basically passed 8,000 people, so that was kind of annoying. I think saying 1:50 would have put us in a better spot to not have to add so much distance running around people.

Also, no more Amino Build. Stuff is awesome, but it makes me pee too much. First almost 5 mile were pretty uncomfy as I had to go so bad the entire time.
Post race
Warm down:

Stopped running at finish line and the 48 degree, pouring rain weather took care of the warm down real quick!!!!

What limited your ability to perform faster:

Nothing, we did exaclty what we came to do.

Event comments:

Overall this was alot of fun. I really enjoyed pacing somebody at this pace because it was a very relaxed run for me. The weather kinda sucked, but if it was not for the weather I would not have run it. All the weaving and bobbing and crowds made the course .17 long, but even at that we were well under 2.




Last updated: 2013-04-29 12:00 AM
Running
01:57:12 | 13.1 miles | 08m 57s  min/mile
Age Group: 111/1292
Overall: 1292/17892
Performance: Good
5 km - 28:26 10 km - 56:16 9.9 mi - 1:30:05 Mile 1 - 9:00:07, Mile 2 - 8:41:96, Mile 3 - 9:13:33, Mile 4 - 9:08:53, Mile 5 - 9:13:68 (I stopped to pee at the end of mile 5, hurting this mile), Mile 6 - 8:23:82 (This is a result of having to catch up to jen, so i was running sub 8 for half a mile), Mile 7 - 8:47:99, Mile 8 - 9:18:22, Mile 9 - 8:59:05, Mile 10 - 8:45:40, Mile 11 - 8:45:02, Mile 12 - 8:55:60, Mile 13 - 8:59:18, Mile 13.27 - 1:53:11 (7:06 pace)
Course: Pretty hilly, but very scenic through various parts of downtown Nashville I had never been. Was nice to have a tour guide and to be running at a very conversational pace where I could enjoy the course and the spectators, etc...
Keeping cool Good Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5] 3
Physical exertion [1-5] 3
Good race? Yes
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? No
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Average
Race evaluation [1-5] 3