Hartford 1/2 Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Hartford, Connecticut
United States
Hartford Marathon Foundation
40F / 4C
Sunny
 		Total Time = 8h 00m
Overall Rank = 588/2313
Age Group = F30-34
Age Group Rank = 23/201
Pre-race routine:

up at 6am. banana and water. left home at 6:45 stopped at starbucks for coffee and then went to pickup a & taco at their house. drove downtown and parked in taco's work garage, very key! (met Polly and Chris here also) Walked over to venue. found bag check then back to portopots, very long lines. then back to start.
Event warmup:

walked around
Run
  • 1h 51m 19s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 08m 30s  min/mile
Comments:

This was going to be my long slow run for the weekend. I was planning on staying at 9:30-10 min/mile pace and see if Nate, A and Taco would hang with me. So it started out right on plan.
mile 1: 10.10
mile 2 & 3: 18.51
now this is were I felt good and took the free speed on the downhill
mile 4: 7.54
mile 5: 8.10
mile 6 & 7: 16.09 (passed the captain here and he looked strong)
mile 8: 8.04
mile 9: 8.04
mile 10: 8.13
mile 11: 8.24
mile 12: 8.02
mile 13 & .1: 9.13

felt really good the whole time I was running in the 8s. amazed that i was as consistant as I was for the splits. finished with a nice sprint in.
What would you do differently?:

train for racing a 1/2 mary.
Post race
Warm down:

walked around, stretched, met up with other BTers (Polly, Chris, Dan, Rob, Merideth). changed out of wet top and waited for a, taco and nate. then walked over to food.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

training, calf injury in aug, sept.

Event comments:

this was a nice setup. not as much music on course and they were saying. and the course is not that pretty of a course. it would be nice if they could send the run into west hartford or wethersfield.




Last updated: 2006-10-14 12:00 AM
Running
01:51:19 | 13.1 miles | 08m 30s  min/mile
Age Group: 0/201
Overall: 0/2313
Performance: Good
Course: From the website: "The Half -Marathon is also a two loop course and travels on the same roads as the Marathon. The entire course is flat and fast. The last 4 miles of the half marathon are full of entertainment and surprises!" Really: the course takes you from downtown over a bridge to east hartford. then turns you around right after mile 4 to head back to hartford. then a little bit along the river/highway in east hartford before heading back over bridge to hartford. then you take a loop around the colt building and finally head back to bushnell park.
Keeping cool Good Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall:
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5]
Good race?
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? No
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Good
Race evaluation [1-5] 4