Pikes Peak Ascent - RunHalf Marathon


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Manitou Springs, Colorado
United States
Sunny
 		Total Time = 00m
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Pre-race routine:

Parked at High School and will do so again if possible. Used facilities at Ball Diamond- Sweet.
Event warmup:

Laughter at the prospect of doing this event on so little training.
Run
  • 5h 09m 26s
  • 13.32 miles
  • 23m 14s  min/mile
Comments:

Minimal Training this year. No runs over an hour, no incline-treadmill time at all, AND no runs on Barr Trail. Then Moved 2 weeks before, and with wife 7 months pregnant that included loading and unloading a 24ft truck by myself and continuing to do all move-in for days afterward.
Goal was to go just faster than slowest ever time, and did so by 7-8 minutes. Fair enough.
Post race
Warm down:

I wish Timmy had come to enjoy the great weather and so I wouldn't have to karaoke by myself later. :-)

Event comments:

Never intended to have to 'publish' this, but I can't figure out how to delete it and want it out of 'Draft' status and done with.




Last updated: 2009-02-08 12:00 AM
Running
05:09:26 | 13.32 miles | 23m 14s  min/mile
Age Group: 0/
Overall: 0/
Performance:
Course: Weather was absolutely the best it can be... of course the year I'm not going for a PR this is the case- see my 2008 attempt where there were over 1900 official entrants and just over 700 finishers (only 60 from my wave) with all others being turned back due to weather.
Keeping cool Drinking
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall:
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5]
Good race?
Evaluation
Course challenge
Organized?
Events on-time?
Lots of volunteers?
Plenty of drinks?
Post race activities:
Race evaluation [1-5]