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The Cowtown - Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Fort Worth, Texas
United States
The Cowtown
35F / 2C
Sunny
Total Time = 1h 46m 48s
Overall Rank = 494/4777
Age Group = m-40-44
Age Group Rank = 54/259
Run
  • 1h 46m 48s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 08m 09s  min/mile
Comments:

speedy! I paced my marathon buddy, Jason, for the first 8 miles to the split. He wanted to go fast and it was my job to reign him in and keep him on an 8:30 pace. Mission accomplished. I was able to open it up on the downhill into town and had a blast flying by people.
Top 10% overall; top 20% in AG; 16th percentile among men.
Post race
Warm down:

stretching, chicken soup, beer, food tent, more stretching - in that order.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

lack of training as i recovered the knee; those pesky extra pounds.

Event comments:

gender - 394th place - 2334 total men w/2:08:00 avg.
10k: 52:19 (8:25), 745 (overall)
10 Mile: 1:22:49 (8:17), 586 (overall)
13.1: 1:46:48 (8:09), 494 (overall)
I like negative splits.
Serious lack of bands/music on the 1/2 mary course. They didn't do a good job explaining the corral system for the starts. Also, the corrals were not well marked. Should have had tall signs up in the air for folks to line up behind. Putting up the rope just didn't work for the crowd which is used to a mass start. Announcer caused confusion, too, with mixed messages.




Last updated: 2010-02-02 12:00 AM
Running
01:46:48 | 13.1 miles | 08m 09s  min/mile
Age Group: 0/259
Overall: 494/4777
Performance: Good
Course: I love this course, particularly the nice, long downhill on Camp Bowie.
Keeping cool Good Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5] 4
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: Below average
Race evaluation [1-5] 4

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2010-02-28 2:13 PM

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Subject: The Cowtown - Half Marathon


2010-03-01 7:58 AM
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Subject: RE: The Cowtown - Half Marathon

Congrats on a great race.   Totally agree with you on the points you make about race organization.   Course wasn't marked very well either.

 

Negative splits are always awesome!   Great job!

 

2010-03-03 8:38 PM
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Subject: RE: The Cowtown - Half Marathon
Wow, way to go. Nice race. Great result.
2010-03-05 11:51 PM
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Subject: RE: The Cowtown - Half Marathon
great race..

I had a dream that the race would be confusing so I kept sleeping and slept in that day  
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