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Comments: I planned on keeping around an 8:00 - 8:05 pace. for the first 10 miles and then let 'er rip from 10 until the finish. I thought I might have a PR in me (flat course, training going well) but wasn't sure if it would happen (no taper). At the start of the race a lot of people passed me. It did hurt the ego, but I told myself to run my own race and pass people at the end. thanks to toddler H, I had The Wheels on the Bus stuck in my head for, umm .. approximately 12.754 miles. It was so painful. Hard as I tried I could not get another earworm in there. Deb drove me home and then James and I dealt with a pukey toddler for the rest of the day. (no worries. he's okay now) Glamorous. And I thought I was second in my AG but something in the prelim results was wrong and I GOT FIRST IN MY AG!* FIRST WOMAN 30-39! WHEEEEEEE ! It is so super-duper nice to see mid week medium-length runs and puke inducing sessions on the treadmill pay off. Philly I cannot wait to see you! Time: 1:44:39 Pace: 7:58/ mile AG (F30-39): 1/ 21 Overall: 15/ 245 *I realize this was a small race and just barely cracking 1:45 wouldn't get me anywhere near the top in a bigger race, but I'm going to ignore that and keep on feeling like a rockstar. 1 8:01.8 2 8:04.5 3 8:01.5 4 8:05.7 5 8:01.9 6 8:12.7 (GU) 7 7:58.0 8 8:01.2 9 8:03.3 10 8:06.6 11 8:01.2 12 7:58.1 13 7:44.3 What would you do differently?: Not a damn thing!  Post race
Event comments: Very well done low key local race. race report http://irontrish.blogspot.com/2013/09/abebe-bikila-day-internationa... Last updated: 2013-05-31 12:00 AM
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60F / 16C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 15/245
Age Group = F30-39
Age Group Rank = 1/21
as I mentioned in my last post, I kind of forgot about this race. It's been on my schedule but it wasn't an A race -- more of a let's-see-where-I-am-for-Philly race.
For information about Abebe Bikila, click here.
my iron-buddy Deb came over for a pasta dinner (complete with a refusing-to-sit-on-his-chair toddler) and we headed over to Georgetown/ NoVa around 7:30 (no one wants to be anywhere near that area in rush hour traffic). We drove past all the fun Georgetown-ness to go to check into our hotel and go to sleep early. woohoo. Fell asleep after 10:00 after watching two episodes of Say Yes to the Dress because priorities.
we didn't go to packet pickup on Friday (see: rush-hour terribleness and it closed at 7) so we left for the race start at 6:30 am. Race start time was 9am and we were 3 miles from the hotel, but who wants to rush on race morning? we got to the start (after getting a little turned around and holy crap do I want to live here. my dad: you may want to practice a different area of law then) and realized we had a couple of hours until race start.
it was an almost chilly morning .. not even 60* at the race start -- a welcome change from the 90+ degree temps we had earlier in the week. Deb and I got our packets and tshirts.
The race was really low key - no chip, about 300 runners, small mile markers on the ground. no mats, no splits, nothing fancy ... just a well organized, beautiful race with the friendliest RD (Jay Wind was the nice guy who let me enter the Potomac River Run Marathon last year after the registration closed and I needed a redemption marathon).
The race had bananas and bagels for breakfast (how many races provide pre-race food?) and Deb and I ate breakfast in the car (I asked her to turn on the heat. she laughed) and putzed around until race start.