Seaside Half-Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Seaside, Florida
United States
Seaside Half-Marathon
60sF / 0C
Sunny
 		Total Time = 2h 00m 10s
Overall Rank = 567/2000
Age Group = F50-54
Age Group Rank = 4/77
Pre-race routine:

Stayed with a friend in Seagrove Beach, so it was a simple thing -- jump out of bed, have lots of coffee (story to come) and a Power Bar, then walk over to the course.

Warning -- lots of potty talk in this race report. :)
Event warmup:

Shivering -- it was 50 degrees at the start but 70 degrees at the end. How do you prepare for that? Long porta potty lines, so I decided not to wait.
Run
  • 2h 00m 10s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 09m 10s  min/mile
Comments:

I guess I had too much coffee before the start. Then the porta potty lines were long, so I decided to blow it off. Of course, that's all I could think about during the run, so I finally decided to stop. Then I couldn't get back on pace. I'm just fortunate that I still made my goal!

As an aside -- I stopped at the porta potty a couple of miles after the turn around. There was a very nice woman who was on her way out, not to the turn around yet. She was in line in front of me, but saw that I was on the return and made me go in front of her. :)
What would you do differently?:

Don't drink so much coffee!
Post race
Warm down:

Not much -- walked around a little, some light stretching.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

The stop in the middle of the race interrupted my pace, and I had difficulties getting back together. Definitely a lesson learned...

Event comments:

They had difficulties with the race results, and of course it started with my age group. They announced the first place finisher, then went on to the men. I started to pout. :( So I went up and questioned them, and it turned out that they had lost an antenna and they had been using wireless transfer, so they had to go to backup. Unfortunately that took a long time. But it turned out ok -- second in my age group!

Well, now they've posted results on the website and it looks like they made another error yesterday, and I actually came in 4th instead of 2nd. I'm going to contact the race committee and see what they want to do.




Last updated: 2007-12-21 12:00 AM
Running
02:00:10 | 13.1 miles | 09m 10s  min/mile
Age Group: 2/77
Overall: 0/2000
Performance: Average
1 8:55 147; 2 8:40 161; 3 8:33 163; 4 8:38 165; 5 8:39 166; 6 8:37 167; 7 8:39 167; 8 10:26 164 (porta potty stop -- had to stand in line!); 9 9:08 166; 10 9:26 163; 11 9:48 164; 12 9:36 165; 13 9:03 172; 0.1 1:22 177 (and my Garmin said it was 0.18 miles)
Course: Florida = flat -- not really! There were whoop-de-dos and even some "hills".
Keeping cool Average Drinking Too much
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Bad
Mental exertion [1-5] 3
Physical exertion [1-5] 3
Good race? Ok
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Good
Race evaluation [1-5] 4