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Comments: First of all, this was a PR by 12 minutes, which I feel awesome about. Only problem is I really need to learn to pace myself better. I was trying to negative split, and started off faster than I should have, but I felt so good - legs felt great, no labored breathing. I kept having to slow down, because I new it was too fast. As you can tell from the splits, I did not slow down enough. Splits (might be a bit low - GPS showed 13.32 miles @ 8:47 avg pace: Mile 1 - 8:26 Mile 2 - 8:27 Mile 3 - 8:36 Mile 4 - 8:46 Mile 5 - 8:30 Mile 6 - 8:47 Mile 7 - 9:23 - Porta Potty stop Mile 8 - 8:52 Mile 9 - 9:01 Mile 10 - 9:20 Mile 11 - 8:40 Mile 12 - 9:02 Mile 13 - 8:28 What would you do differently?: Just learn to pace better, but I really don't think at this phase in my running I could have done more than a couple minutes faster. ![]() Post race
Warm down: Stretched, and walked around a bit. Went back and watched the marathon winner finish, had a beer, then went home. What limited your ability to perform faster: Poor pacing - this will probably inprove with more racing. Thanks to a lot of hard work and good coaching (thanks Mark), I knoched 12 minutes off my last half mary 5 months ago. Event comments: Drink stations were a bit farther apart than I would like and not at regular intervals(only 3 in the first 6 miles). It was cool today, so it wasn't bad, but it could have been a problem for me if it was hotter. Last updated: 2008-10-07 12:00 AM
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Woke up at 4:45, and had some toast with Nutella & jelly. Thought it would be a good idea to park at my office 1/2 mile away and jog to the race, but there was ample parking within 2 blocks of the race.
Just the jog from the car & some stretching, but I cooled down before the gun