Pasadena 10K
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Comments: The race got delayed by 10 mins, and by 7:10am it was already plenty hot. Kept my eye on the contestants up front, and saw a couple of dudes looking my age and fast. Kicked off and one of them got dropped almost right away, and the other one was nowhere to be found. When I got to the turnoff by the 134 freeway, ran into the back of the 1/2 marathon and had to work my way through the crowd of walkers. The run back up the ramp was a decent climb, and did I mention that it was plenty hot by that time? Passed a few more runners as I was running miles 5 and 6. Saw the crowd at the finish line but could not see the finish chute! By then my Garmin was showing that I ran almost 6.5 miles and I was wondering if I had missed the finish line altogether. What would you do differently?: Not sure. Did not do a ton of running since the Malibu Creek event. Post race
Warm down: Not a ton, grabbed some food and headed back home as I had a flight to catch in the evening. What limited your ability to perform faster: The heat, the flight later that day... did not come out to kill it that day. Event comments: Apparently, things fell apart later on and the race organizers ran out of water, good and medals for the slower 1/2ers. I did not see it, but the fact that the course was mismeasured and no clearly visible finish chute was used kinda sucked. I emailed the organizers and they admitted that the course's length was not certified - i.e. f..ed up. Last updated: 2013-06-30 12:00 AM
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2013-07-18 6:35 AM |
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United States
Pasadena Marathon
82F / 28C
Sunny
Overall Rank = 8/1190
Age Group = M40-44
Age Group Rank = 2/68
Got up at around 5am, had a banana and a clif bar with some Gatorade. Drove up to the site and hit a porta potty, and then lined up upfront.
Stretched, ran some sprints and waited at the starting line.