Talking with DJdavey and all the sudden the starter says "go" simple as that. So we were off. Elbows thrown and I jostled into position and a "comfortable" pace. First mile was 6:43, a little fast considering my goal was to hold 6:50 and empty the tank in the last 2(ish) miles. Next mile slowed up a bit (somewhere around 6:55), then I settled in to about a 6:47 min/mile and held that pretty well. Grabbed water at the aid station just after mile 3 (the village people aid station). Grabbed water just after mile 6 and tossed that on my face to get the sweat out of my eyes.

I felt great at the turnaround, I was even ahead of schedule time wise at 44:15... Then it started to go downhill....

Since i felt good I felt like a picked it up a bit (around 6:40, or slightly slower). I held that till mile 8, then I started to suffer and fall apart. I slowed up a bit to try and keep it together. I grabbed water at the aid station just before mile 10 and actually stopped to drink it. Managed to keep with it till mile 10, thats when the wheels really fell off. There is a slight uphill going into the mile 11 marker and I managed to do that ok, but felt TERRIBLE at the top. Downhill, around a slight corner and up another slight hill before a steep downhill to mile marker 11.

Then BIG long uphill, I REALLY suffered up this, got close to puking at the top, and I realized I had pretty much stopped sweating... I really should have taken SOME kind of nutrition, but all my training runs I was fine. I really had to hoof it in the last mile (which was slow, didn't even bother to look at my last mile split). Struggled to hit my 1:30 goal, but I did get it!

All round I was happy with the run, I finished in the top 10% of finishers, hit my goal time, and ran 13.1 miles in the process!

Figure out a nutrition plan. I should have taken water at every aid station, and should find something I can stomach drinking while running (gatorade, heed, something). I prabably could have held my pace and came in around 1:28ish.... I also should do a little more volume. My longest run to date was a 13.1 mile run just to try the distance. I should have been up near 14-15.

Some stretching, got some cookies, coke, gatorade and shoved anything i could find in my mouth. Stood around and talked with Erica and Robyn.


Definatley a bare bones runners race. Lots of fun, beautiful course. It helped that the weather was FANTASTIC!