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Ocean City, Maryland
United States
Extreme Dreams
55F / 13C
Overcast
Total Time = 00m
Overall Rank = 9/361
Age Group = 40-44
Age Group Rank = 1/22
Pre-race routine:

Two bananas, clif bar, 2 slices turkey, 24oz water. Got a decent night's sleep and hydrated well the night before.
Event warmup:

Walked down the boardwalk to meet up with Dave. Jogged a little, strides, stretched. Met Dave's parents and ran into Todd. We chatted until the race started.
Run
  • 1h 34m 47s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 07m 14s  min/mile
Comments:

I was worried about the weather. Forecast was for rain and SW wind, which would be in our faces almost the whole race, since it was a point to point run. I stayed within myself for most of the race, meaning that my breathing was under control and I had the ability to speed up my pace if I wanted to. The mile markers were uneven and hard to find, at times, so it was difficult to judge the effort other than perceived exertion and HR. I had decent splits, but lost my higher gear around mile 8. I had hoped to run sub 7:00 miles for the last 5K (like VaBeach), but I was too aggressive in my early pacing and just had to hold on until the end.
I set a new PR, bettering last September's 13.1 by 2:20, I got awarded 1st in my AG, thanks to a 44 y/o getting 2nd overall, so I can't complain. Very happy to get the hardware.
What would you do differently?:

If this had been an A race, I would have tapered better. I think my workload leading up to the race resulted in more fatigue than I would have liked.
Nutrition-wise, I had planned on taking a gel at either mile 6 or mile 8 and missed them. I don't know if it would have made a difference or not, but after mile 8, the effort to maintain pace became significantly tougher. I did take a gel at mile 10, but that was probably a waste of Gu by that point. And I didn't drink enough water with it.
Post race
Warm down:

I felt pretty good, so I ran back out onto the course to run in with Dave. Drank my Endurox, ate some bananas, then headed up to the post-race festivities for some beer.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

Insufficient taper, wind (but I couldn't do anything about that).

Event comments:

Happy with my performance, but I over-estimated my ability.
Swag bag was the worst I've ever gotten - they could have saved the bag and just handed out t-shirts.
Post-race was so-so, but they had more food than most and they served cold beer (1st 2 free and cheap after that). The problem, and this is endemic to every race I've been to is that they serve crap. And an endurance "athlete", or athlete wannabe, I'm usually consciencous about what I put in my body. What do you get at races? Hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, brownies, etc.. Saturated fat, nutritionally void carbs, and sugar. I don't get it.
The post race was so-so from an organization standpoint, but I enjoyed getting together with Dave, Todd, and Jeremy (grandson of church member, who we met at finish line - nobody knew he was racing) and rehashing the race and other BS. I also liked having a close-to-home race. I'll do it again, but hope they can improve over the years.




Last updated: 2006-03-06 12:00 AM
Running
01:34:47 | 13.1 miles | 07m 14s  min/mile
Age Group: 1/22
Overall: 9/361
Performance: Good
1-3. 21:43.8 HR=152 (whoops, missed the first 2 mile marks) 4. 7:45.1 158 (Yikes, that's not so good) 5. 6:30.4 161 (Hmmm, maybe 4 & 5 weren't quite measured correctly) 6. 7:03.9 162 7. 7:08.4 161 8. 7:03.5 161 9. 7:03.1 160 (short, I think) 10. 7:34.5 160 11. 7:15.0 160 12. 7:33.4 159 13. 8:18.0 159 (+0.1, bridge, finish sprint)
Course: Started at the inlet, up the boards to Division St then out of town over the Rt 50 bridge. Down 611 to Assateague with a few detours into housing developments and side roads, which really helped to break the wind. Over the bridge at Assateague and a sprint to the finish. Mostly flat except for the bridges. Rural roads were scenic and made for pleasant running. Bridge at last mile was a nice challenge.
Keeping cool Good Drinking Not enough
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Average
Mental exertion [1-5] 3
Physical exertion [1-5] 4
Good race? Yes
Evaluation
Course challenge
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities: Average
Race evaluation [1-5] 3

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2006-04-09 1:18 PM

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2006-04-09 1:54 PM
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Cycling Guru
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Wow, awesome run! Congrats on the new PR!
2006-04-10 8:13 AM
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Congratulations on the 1st place finish!  It makes me wonder what would have happened if you actually tapered.  Hmmm.....

Thanks again for coming back out and running in with me - that was awesome!

2006-04-10 8:53 AM
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Very Nice Glenn, 1st in AG well done! Probably a good thing we never hooked up for that tun in CP. I never wuda kept up Congrats again.
2006-04-10 9:00 AM
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Awesome run! Congrats on placing 1st!
2006-04-10 9:11 AM
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Wow Glenn!  Congrats on the PR and hardware!  Man you are fast!  And you didn't taper enough for this race??  You're killing me!!


2006-04-10 9:41 AM
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Congratulations on taking 1st in AG -- That's AWESOME.  I'm not surprised you were able to do it though, having watched your training runs over the past several months!

I'm particularly impressed by your support of Dave -- That's a great friend to go back and run in with a training buddy!  That's what makes this sport so great!

 Keep it up, you're AWESOME!  CONGRATULATIONS!

 

 

2006-04-10 3:14 PM
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Damn!  Great race!  I'd say you did a pretty good job of "just" holding on.

Glad you're not in my AG for Columbia.

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