March Madness Half Marathon
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Comments: Felt good through mile 7 or 8 or so... kind of wanted to stop at mile 10... a nice round number... why bother myself with 3.1 MORE miles? I was running with my friend IP (Irish Peter) who is coming off an injury and didn't know if he could or would run today at all... but decided he'd hang with me... which I TOTALLY appreciated. It made the race bearable, and fun... He likes to talk. :) Fine by me... I liked to listen! His Half Marathon PR is on that course...set last year... something like 1:40... so he did me a significant favor today... And I am ever grateful! What would you do differently?: There's not much I could have done differently. I'm so glad I had someone I knew and liked to run with. It was great to have a person there with me for the whole event. We laughed, we sang, we just had a hum dinger of a time... even when I wanted to just "stop" around mile 10... we kept on cruising... And then it was mile 11... then before I knew it, mile 12... Then we met back up with Katie and Pete and Carleen at the finish line! This was a good run for me... Exactly how I thought I'd do... was aiming for 2 hours and 30 +/- minutes. And that's just where I landed. I don't think there's much I could have done differently except maybe train more. My longest run in training for this event was only 12 miles. I should have gone a bit over distance, I'm thinking. I would have had the full 13 according to my plan, but I got sick that one weekend. Am thinking I will need to re-examine my pre-race diet. Something is not right. This was worse than just nerves. Post race
Warm down: Walk around, desperately search for Porta potty. What limited your ability to perform faster: My dependence on Porta-potties. Event comments: A very well organized race... and the sweatshirts are really really cute. I will wear it with pride because I ABSOLUTELY earned mine. Last updated: 2006-03-13 12:00 AM
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Porta potty. This is a word you're going to have to get used to reading, because it's a big part of my experience today.
Walking to and from the Porta potty.