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New York, New York
United States
New York Road Runner's Club
47F / 8C
Overcast
 		Total Time = 2h 44m
Overall Rank = 14609 /1600
Age Group = 42%
Age Group Rank = 960/
Pre-race routine:

drove to south street seaport, parked, found a cab uptown.
Event warmup:

walking to find the cab, walking to corrals, stretching.
Run
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Comments:

i kept a steady pace nearly the whole time. (no spurts of speed). started out about 10-12 min/mile the whole 6 miles in the park, mostly due to the pace of the other under. This is faster than I usually run. I kept up under a 12 minute mile the whole race. ONly stopped to walking speed to drink water. I drank a sip of water at nearly every station, one or two gatorades which are disgusting, went through a package of cliff shot blocks, and i had a power bar gel that was offered at 7 miles, delicious.
What would you do differently?:

MAKE SURE TO PACK SOMETHING TO EAT TO RECOVER. As a vegan and gluten free there is never anything in the bag i can eat. Pretzels, fruit, nuts, protein.
Post race
Warm down:

kept walking.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

didn't do speed workouts much and it showed.

Event comments:

Central park was beautiful and it sure was fun running at times square. Excellent post race celebration, and it seemed to have a lot of fun things and discounts for participants. as the mom of a 4 month old I couldn't' partake in any of this but if you were running with friends this looks like a great way to spend a sunday in march!




Last updated: 2012-01-02 12:00 AM
Running
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Age Group: 0/
Overall: 0/1600
Performance: Good
Course:
Keeping cool Drinking
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5] 4
Physical exertion [1-5] 3
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: Good
Race evaluation [1-5] 5

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2012-03-19 7:18 AM

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Subject: New York City Half Marathon

2012-03-19 11:27 AM
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Subject: RE: New York City Half Marathon

Nice job. I thought there was a great atmosphere for the race.

How long did you have to wait to get across the start line? I was surprised to see many folks still waiting to start when I came through the end of the 6 mile loop through the park. Especially given how long before the race they had closed the corrals. Perhaps if they widened the start chute they could have gotten everybody through the start faster, and then wouldn't have had to worry about making space for parallels streams of runners on that half mile section of the park. 

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