Run Crazy Horse Marathon - Run


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Hill City, South Dakota
United States
45F / 7C
Precipitation
 		Total Time = 3h 51m 1s
Overall Rank = 27/165
Age Group = 40-44
Age Group Rank = 2/18
Pre-race routine:

aet my oatmeal, walked the 1/2 mile to the shuttle stop
Event warmup:

sat in the warm Crazy Horse Memporial and rested, aand stretched a bit
Run
  • 3h 51m 1s
  • 26.2 miles
  • 08m 49s  min/mile
Comments:

Race went well. No serious goals for this race, since it was only 2 weeks after the last marathon. Beautiful rails-to-trails trail the majority of the way. Great scenery. Going south, it was all downhill and downwind. Didn't feel like it htough, until we turned around back in to it. Miles 10-16 were all uphill and into the wind. My average mile pace dropped almost 1 min/mile. Once we got back to the Crazy Horse, it was about 5 miles of nice downhill, so the wind didn't bother me too much. It then leveled out about 21, though, and wind was howling directly into us the rest of the way in.
What would you do differently?:

nothing
Post race
Warm down:

walked 1/2 mile back to hotel

What limited your ability to perform faster:

headwinds

Event comments:

Nice smaller race. ~165 in the full, and ~1000 in the half marathon. The Black Hills are gorgeous. Nice place to spend a long weekndf with Rushmore, the Crazy Horse Memporial and Custer State Park right there. I would highly recommend Rushmore and driving thru Custer, also on Needles Higway. I've never seen scenery like it anywhere else. It was beautiful.




Last updated: 2014-09-21 12:00 AM
Running
03:51:01 | 26.2 miles | 08m 49s  min/mile
Age Group: 2/18
Overall: 22/165
Performance: Average
Course: 3.5 mile loop around the Crazy Horse Memprial, then ~7 miles wouht on the Mickelson Tril, then turned around and came back north the lat ~16 miles.
Keeping cool Average Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Average
Mental exertion [1-5] 3
Physical exertion [1-5] 3
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: Average
Race evaluation [1-5] 4