Music City Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Nashville, Tennessee
United States
52F / 11C
Sunny
 		Total Time = 1h 40m 36s
Overall Rank = 57/525
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 12/46
Pre-race routine:

got up, ate some oatmeal and drove to the stadium
Event warmup:

ran 2 miles with Jeff, actually ran it about 7:40 pace, so not really a warm-up, but a pre-race
Run
  • 1h 40m 36s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 07m 41s  min/mile
Comments:

Dull run. It was just a nice long training run. It was comfortably hard, could have gone faster, but not a whole lot faster. IT was great at the start, but got hot pretty quickly. There were only 4 water stops and I could have used another one or 2. Being just a long run, and not a race, it wasn't a big deal
What would you do differently?:

nothing
Post race
Warm down:

walked around for 10 minutes, ate some pizza nad a banana, drove home

What limited your ability to perform faster:

nothing

Event comments:

Very boring run. $50 for an ugly orange shirt and a pack of powerade mix? THe fee was a bit too high, plus, the parking area that we were directed to park in was $5, too. We staretd 15 min late, I never heard an explanation for that one. The post-race spread was pretty good, thoguh with lots of pizza and fruit and cookies and beer. THe soft drinks were total generic Wal-Mart brand, so I can only imagine what was in the kegs.

THe medal was an absolute joke. I usually give these to my kids to play with, but I just threw this one away.

I would have been really pissed about all of this if I had gone into this in a race mindset. Fortunately, this was just a long training run so I had no real expectation, I just didn't want to run another 15 miles by myself, so it served its purpose.

I would NOT race this in the future though.




Last updated: 2008-10-06 12:00 AM
Running
01:40:36 | 13.1 miles | 07m 41s  min/mile
Age Group: 12/46
Overall: 57/525
Performance: Good
7:44,7:33,7:47,7:44,7:54,7:44,7:37,7:45,7:36,7:41,7:36,7:31,7:32, 0:46
Course: out and back alogn the Shelby Bottoms Greenway
Keeping cool Average Drinking Not enough
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5] 4
Physical exertion [1-5] 4
Good race? Yes
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? No
Lots of volunteers? No
Plenty of drinks? No
Post race activities: Average
Race evaluation [1-5] 2