P. F. Chang's Rock 'N' Roll Arizona Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Phoenix, Arizona
United States
Elite Racing Inc.
55F / 13C
Sunny
 		Total Time = 2h 24m 19s
Overall Rank = 11892/21985
Age Group = 34
Age Group Rank = 890/1156
Pre-race routine:

Two cups of coffee, two bottles of cytomax, two bananas and two head calls.
Event warmup:

None
Run
  • 2h 24m 19s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 11m 01s  min/mile
What would you do differently?:

Next time I will try not to get completely drunk the night before the race and then get no sleep.
Post race
Warm down:

Just walking around the finish expo for a while eating and drinking everything in sight.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

Getting drunk the night before the race

Event comments:

The race organizers did a really good job with everything except the toilet situation. There was close to 40,000 people at the race but there were only 300 port a potties at the starting area ( and I question if there were actually 300). The wait time was no less than 35 minutes which caused many people, like me, to have to wait to use a head on the course. Because of this situation I spent a very long 6 minutes waiting to go to the bathroom DURING the race. That really pissed me off. The official results list my time as 2:30:19 but I consider my time to be six minutes faster than that.




Last updated: 2008-10-07 12:00 AM
Running
02:24:19 | 13.1 miles | 11m 01s  min/mile
Age Group: 890/1156
Overall: 11892/21985
Performance:
Course:
Keeping cool Average Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5] 3
Physical exertion [1-5] 4
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: Good
Race evaluation [1-5] 4