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Comments: What a tough run. I mean, the course was fine; it was me. Since my Around the Bay 30K run back in April I haven't been keeping up with my running. In fact, my run volume dropped and I haven't done any LSD runs. I knew going into this event that I would have a tough time but I was surprised by just how much that was the case. The first 10K were relatively easy but by the 15K mark I was getting quite tired. It took a lot of mental effort to push through the last 6K. In the last kilometer I was really pushing hard and had a lot of side stitches. Interestingly, my legs felt pretty good. They weren't tired or sore at all and felt quite strong but it just seemed like it took a lot of effort to maintain my pace. My goal was to finish in 1:45 or better. Unfortunately I missed that mark by just about 5 minutes. I'm sure that had I trained properly I could have reached that goal. Lesson learned. On the positive side, my sustained pace was my best yet and I did improve since my last race and most definitely since my last half marathon 7 months ago but it took a lot of mental effort to do so. At the same time, having to push through the mental fatigue was a great learning experience which I will use in future races I'm sure. What would you do differently?: I'm not sure that I could have done anything differently on race day. Given my training level (or lack thereof) I gave it my best both physically and mentally.  Post race
What limited your ability to perform faster: Lack of traning. My run volume has taken a nose dive in the last month and a half so I'm not surprised at the results. Profile Album Last updated: 2007-04-03 12:00 AM
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 2007-05-14 9:39 AM |
Expert  634    Toronto |  Subject: Mississauga Half Marathon |
| 2007-05-14 2:19 PM in reply to: #799482 |
Regular 56 Corona, California | Subject: RE: Mississauga Half Marathon If you haven't been running in a while, and still did a sub 2:00 half-mary, your awesome!! Great race!! Have a great day. |
| 2007-05-15 2:34 PM in reply to: #799482 |
Expert 634 Toronto | Subject: RE: Mississauga Half Marathon Thanks for that perk up! It's not that I haven't been running, it more like I have cut down my mileage and eliminated my LSD runs in the last month and a half. Anyway, thanks gain |
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Mississauga Half Marathon
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Overall Rank = 519/1465
Age Group = M35-39
Age Group Rank = 94/244
Good breakfast in the morning and a bottle of Gatorade about 45 minutes before the start.
I really didn't have a chance to warm up. I got to the event in what I thought was going to be plenty of time. Unfortunately, there was a lot of conjestion getting off the main road and into the parking lot. It took almost 20 minutes just to drive less than 1KM from the main road and park the car. By the time I did that, and make a quick stop at the port-a-potty I had literally a minute and a half to get into the gate before the event started. Luckily, I was able to stay calm and relaxed so I didn't really get phased by this.