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Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Toronto, Ontario
Canada
RCP International
20C / 68F
Overcast
Total Time = 1h 41m 58s
Overall Rank = 528/6373
Age Group = 35-39
Age Group Rank = 88/479
Pre-race routine:

Woke up just before 5am, showered up and had some toast and PB and waited for my ride - which was 10 minutes late, and caused me to start stressing out. We got downtown in plenty of time and I got into my corral about 30 minutes before race start.
Event warmup:

Nothing really - a little walking around, and pacing back and forth.
Run
  • 1h 41m 58s
  • 21.08 kms
  • 04m 50s  min/km
Comments:

Everyone started off really fast, and I kind of expected there to be a quick pace at the beginning. It only took just over a km for the pace to settle down, but I certainly had a lot of people passing me. I think some of the faster runners got caught at the back of the corral and were trying to make up a little time.

I noticed that my HR started to climb pretty fast even though I was maintaining my goal pace. I chalked this up to the fact that I was running on 4 hours sleep since our new little baby girl kept me up most of the night. But it also meant that my HR would continue to climb as we got further into the run.

Kept a good pace, until about km 4 where my Garmin stopped recording lap data. This was my fault since I needed to delete some of my previous runs but hadn't done so. So there I am running along with this thing beeping away at me and me trying to fiddle with the buttons and figure out how to delete laps. Eventually I had to turn it off and on again, deleted a run and thought I was safe - wrong. It happened twice more during the run so I lost about 3km of data. Not much I can do about that one.

Felt good for the first half (with the exception of needing to pee - recurring theme for me during races this year). Made the turnaround just a little behind schedule, but was maintaining a good pace. Made up that time in the last 4km as I picked up my pace and by the time I finished I had nothing left.
What would you do differently?:

Except for the Garmin everything went according to plan and I ended up finishing exactly as planned. I had held some wild thoughts that if I felt really good in the early part I'd try and push the last 1/2 harder and try to break 1:40. That didn't happen since my HR was so high from the start, but for my first 1/2 marathon I can't complain at all.
Post race
Warm down:

Just walked around a bit, met up with people and ate some of the snacks.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

I'm still a new runner (1 year) so I have no doubt I'll get faster with time. I'll spend the winter trying to create a strong base and we'll see how I perform next year.

Event comments:

Great event and highly recommended - they bill the event as flat and fast and that certainly helped for my first one of these.




Last updated: 2008-09-26 12:00 AM
Running
01:41:58 | 21.08 kms | 04m 50s  min/km
Age Group: 88/479
Overall: 528/6373
Performance: Good
Course: Run from Nathan Philips Square to Lakeshore, along Lakeshore and back.
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:
Race evaluation [1-5] 4

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2008-09-29 11:29 AM

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2008-09-29 12:05 PM
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Wow!  Great race!  A 1:41 is fantastic for your 1st half mary! 

2008-09-29 5:14 PM
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Great Job Neil! Smokin' fast!!!

You know, if you ran in your wetsuit, then you could pee without stopping
2008-09-29 6:40 PM
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Great Job!! I am jealous because I wanted to do one this year but I will have to wait til next year. March 2009!! Great Time, too!!
2008-09-29 7:00 PM
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Wow, great race!! I had the opposite experience with the start!!! guess it all depends on what corral you were in! It was a great race, but I signed up with a slow time (originally I was running to support my SIL, of course she didn't end up racing) It took me 12 minutes just to get to the starting line once the gun went off!!!! The pack didn't thin out until the 7km mark. By that point I'd given up on a sub 2hr race (I'm not fast to start with and didn't do much training for this one) It was a great race with lots of support. The volunteers were amazing, very inspirational. but next time I'm getting myself into one of the fast corrals to start!!!!!

Congrats on the 1h40m time that amazing!!!!
2008-09-29 8:33 PM
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Congrats man, You beat my first 1/2 mary time! That was agreat event and an awesome day!, I loved everything about it, check out my race report for it, if ya get a chance.


2008-09-29 11:27 PM
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wow great time, congrats !!!
2008-09-30 9:03 AM
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Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! That is a fantastic time for your first 1/2 Mary. Way to go!!!
2008-09-30 2:27 PM
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That's excellent Neil!  You had a great time - especially for your first one! 

Congrats!

2008-10-02 8:50 AM
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Looks like you changed your user name just in time!  What a great race!  What does it feel like to run 4:50/km? 

Great job!

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