I had a great race in terms of the result when I consider the low amount of running I've been doing due to my injuries issues and the GI issues I had throughout the race. The course itself was beautiful and the weather was perfect. I started the race at the back of the field because I was totally distracted debating whether I should use the portajohn one more time or not. Anyway, the first 2 miles were VERY busy and I had to zig zag back and forward to pass people. At around mile 2 I settled into a pace but then my GI started after I took some Gatorade at the water station and it was very concentrated. At that moment I knew that the only way to feel a bit better was to stop and "go", but setting the GI issue aside I was feeling awesome with my run. I could feel myself running effortlessly and my HR was at high zone 2 and I was running 6:30 pace! Anyway I decided to stop at the next available portajohn. By mile 4 I saw some portable bathrooms but my run was going great so I kept going. I decided to go without Gatorade or water and just cool down pouring water on y head. Passing the 10K my pace was great and I figured I could run a sub 1:25 keeping the same pace. The second part was VERY challenging cuz I needed to go SO BAD ;) I just focused on one mile at a time and I was repeating to myself: "The faster you run the faster you can use a bathroom" LOL!. I did that and by mile 11, I was scared I was going to "go" while running, but there was more people cheering as we got closer to the city so that helped me to forget about my issue for a bit. By mile 12 I just ran as fast as I could and I was able to run a 5:30 mile! I finished the race, got rid of my chip and ran to the bathroom! :)

use a portajohn b4 the race as many times as necessary. NEVER combine a bagel with gatorade endurance at 4:00 AM

walked/jog light 10 min and ate pancakes 20 minutes later, yummy!


GI.
I was also affraid I was going to crash ugly as my running volume is been very low (Nov 18+ miles, Dec 30+ miles and Jan 50+ miles) and my longest run in 2 months is been 7-8 miles at an easy E2 pace


I loved the race...the GI issues helped me a lot for mental training for the future. Next time -> sub 1:20 ;)