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Report from today's race, its a PR

Savin Rock HM (1:57:17 - garmin time, official results pending)

I was undertrained and hadn't run more that 10 miles in a month.  work and faimly has taken priority to trainign as it should.  BUT I still laid down a sub 2 hr HM on a crazy hard course, which is very gratifying and means i do have the base to race.  That said, if i am expecting to go longer this year - particualrly the Hartford Marathon, I need to get in my longer work outs with better consistency.  If this had been a 18 or 20 mile race, i would have been in trouble.  Here is the report:

Strategy/Prerace: As I am undertrained my strategy was to run purely by HR.  My plan was to keep HR under 155 for the first 10 miles and see what I had left and run as fast a 5K as i was capable.  Yesterday I ate low fiber carbs.  After dinner (spaghetti and sauce) I had a bottle of infinite.  Woke up at 530, coffee, honey nut cheerios.  Sipped infinite on the way to the race.  Warm up was a mile jog with some pick ups.  stretched, used the potty and went to the start line.

Start: ran with a group of Sharks in the 150-200 group.  Miles 1-3 were flat and I just took it easy, my HR was >150 and pace was about 8:20.  the race started running out the causeway along the beach, the temp was perfect but it was very windy probably 20 mph winds coming off teh water.

Miles 3-10: After turning off the beach and taking a let back to Savin Rock, the race turned right on Kellsey and the hills begun.  The hills were insane.  long rollers switching back and forth along Jones Hill.  Sicne I had never run this course or even looked at the map I did not realize it was hilly, let along insane hilly.  So much for my HR strategy.  So I went to trying to keep my HR under 170 uphill and recover on teh down hills, tehre must have been a dozen rollers, usually 1/2 mile or so in length.  There was also some short severe hills.

Miles 10-13.1: I ran most of the race with a buddy from high school, at mile 10 the course started flattening out a bit at about mile 11.  We picked up the pace a bit, I could not stay with him, but ran with this girl running her first HM who kept asking me how far we had left, she was clearly nervous, so I told her stupid jokes and made fun of her for only being 23 and that she did not want an old man to beat her. 

Finish: Gotta love uphill finishes!

Post Race/What Would I ahve Done Differently: I was undertrained.  Other than training more I executed my strategy as best I could have given the course which was very hard.  I should have looked at the course map and realized the middle 8 miles were rollers and gone out faster to make up some time on the front end.  Nutrition was Roctane and water.  I shoudl have also realized the aid stations were sparse and carried water because I was a bit thirtsy.  Candidly, I may start carrying water in longer races as aid stations done seem to work great for me.  I was a little bloated at the end, which may have been the cheerios.   

I have legs, I got to run along the beach with friends on a beautiful almost spring morning.  Pretty lucky.  Its more imporant for me to be an A+ father/husband and A+ lawyer.  If I can only be a B triathlete, I am okay with that and, candily, i seem to do better when i dont get all rat racy about it.  Oh, I need a new inhaler, execise induced asthma is annoying.  Will try and spin out the legs this evening and bike and swim tomorrow.  this race and its ups and down was a good wake up call if I am going to have a good time at Rev3.

Nothing to do with triathlon but I had to share:

Report from today's race, its a PR

Savin Rock HM (1:57:17 - garmin time, official results pending)

I was undertrained and hadn't run more that 10 miles in a month.  work and faimly has taken priority to trainign as it should.  BUT I still laid down a sub 2 hr HM on a crazy hard course, which is very gratifying and means i do have the base to race.  That said, if i am expecting to go longer this year - particualrly the Hartford Marathon, I need to get in my longer work outs with better consistency.  If this had been a 18 or 20 mile race, i would have been in trouble.  Here is the report:

Strategy/Prerace: As I am undertrained my strategy was to run purely by HR.  My plan was to keep HR under 155 for the first 10 miles and see what I had left and run as fast a 5K as i was capable.  Yesterday I ate low fiber carbs.  After dinner (spaghetti and sauce) I had a bottle of infinite.  Woke up at 530, coffee, honey nut cheerios.  Sipped infinite on the way to the race.  Warm up was a mile jog with some pick ups.  stretched, used the potty and went to the start line.

Start: ran with a group of Sharks in the 150-200 group.  Miles 1-3 were flat and I just took it easy, my HR was >150 and pace was about 8:20.  the race started running out the causeway along the beach, the temp was perfect but it was very windy probably 20 mph winds coming off teh water.

Miles 3-10: After turning off the beach and taking a let back to Savin Rock, the race turned right on Kellsey and the hills begun.  The hills were insane.  long rollers switching back and forth along Jones Hill.  Sicne I had never run this course or even looked at the map I did not realize it was hilly, let along insane hilly.  So much for my HR strategy.  So I went to trying to keep my HR under 170 uphill and recover on teh down hills, tehre must have been a dozen rollers, usually 1/2 mile or so in length.  There was also some short severe hills.

Miles 10-13.1: I ran most of the race with a buddy from high school, at mile 10 the course started flattening out a bit at about mile 11.  We picked up the pace a bit, I could not stay with him, but ran with this girl running her first HM who kept asking me how far we had left, she was clearly nervous, so I told her stupid jokes and made fun of her for only being 23 and that she did not want an old man to beat her. 

Finish: Gotta love uphill finishes!

Post Race/What Would I ahve Done Differently: I was undertrained.  Other than training more I executed my strategy as best I could have given the course which was very hard.  I should have looked at the course map and realized the middle 8 miles were rollers and gone out faster to make up some time on the front end.  Nutrition was Roctane and water.  I shoudl have also realized the aid stations were sparse and carried water because I was a bit thirtsy.  Candidly, I may start carrying water in longer races as aid stations done seem to work great for me.  I was a little bloated at the end, which may have been the cheerios.   

I have legs, I got to run along the beach with friends on a beautiful almost spring morning.  Pretty lucky.  Its more imporant for me to be an A+ father/husband and A+ lawyer.  If I can only be a B triathlete, I am okay with that and, candily, i seem to do better when i dont get all rat racy about it.  Oh, I need a new inhaler, execise induced asthma is annoying.  Will try and spin out the legs this evening and bike and swim tomorrow.  this race and its ups and down was a good wake up call if I am going to have a good time at Rev3.

Report from today's race, its a PR

Savin Rock HM (1:57:17 - garmin time, official results pending)

I was undertrained and hadn't run more that 10 miles in a month.  work and faimly has taken priority to trainign as it should.  BUT I still laid down a sub 2 hr HM on a crazy hard course, which is very gratifying and means i do have the base to race.  That said, if i am expecting to go longer this year - particualrly the Hartford Marathon, I need to get in my longer work outs with better consistency.  If this had been a 18 or 20 mile race, i would have been in trouble.  Here is the report:

Report from today's race, its a PR

Savin Rock HM (1:57:17 - garmin time, official results pending)

Sub 2:00 is great for a first half marathon.  I think everyone is undertrained for their first big race and I don't think it really matters.  Pick a half at the end of the year and I think you'll see a huge improvement.

thanks buddy!

Nice job Jeff-y!

Triple training day.  Run this morning, then an easy swim, pacing Shaun at an 8K this afternoon and then Tabatas on the bike tonight.  Going to end up with 21 - ish hours for the week.  Pretty tired.  One more week before recovery.

My race report for yesterday's 15k:  http://www.beginnertriathlete.com/discussion/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=245247

I was warned that this race would be brutal, brutal, it was tough, but not reducing-grown-men-to-tears tough.  It was also smallish and well organized.  One odd thing that I noticed was that I was pretty far down in the standings - I almost always am just ahead of the middle.  Took me a while to figure out that this race scares away the casual 5k run-walker because of the distance and the hills so it wasn't that I was pushed down in the standings, but there just wasn't the volume of casual runners in the race.

Good job Jeff.

Today was brick day for me.   25 miles on the bike @ a little under 20 mph, and 4 plus run right at 8/mile.  Think I could push a little harder on the bike w/o seeing a drop off on the run.  Pacing has always been a crap shoot for me.

Good job Jeff.

Today was brick day for me.   25 miles on the bike @ a little under 20 mph, and 4 plus run right at 8/mile.  Think I could push a little harder on the bike w/o seeing a drop off on the run.  Pacing has always been a crap shoot for me.