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Ottawa Fall Colours Marathon - Half Marathon - Run

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Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Somersault Promotions
11C / 52F
Sunny

Total Time = 1h 49m 26s
Overall Rank = 173/591
Age Group = M45-49
Age Group Rank = 15/34

Pre-race routine:

oatmeal and coffee for breakfast

Event warmup:

10min jog and some drills

Run

1h 49m 26s
21.08 kms
05m 11s min/km

Comments:

Good pacing. Ran through aid stations.

What would you do differently?:

Nothing

Post race

Warm down:

Walked around

What limited your ability to perform faster:

I don't know. Probably not running for 2 weeks waiting for my ankle to heal didn't help.

Event comments:

Good race. Beautiful weather. Ankle a little sore toward the end. Struggled some about 1/2 way but recovered and pushed hard the last 5k. Not quite a PB but I've take it. It is a more difficult course than my PB course.

Very disappointed that the timing mats at the start are not used for true clip time.

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Last updated: 2007-10-07 12:00 AM

Running
01:49:26 \| 21.08 kms \| 05m 11s min/km
Age Group:	15/34
Overall:	173/591
Performance:	Good
1st km 5:10 2k loop 5:00 3k 5:06 4k hill 5:40 5k 5:09 6k hill 5:28 Wilhaven 7k 5:05 8k 5:05 9k 5:06 10-11k loop 5:12 Royal Maple 12-14k 5:01 Frank Kenny 15-18k 5:10 Old Montreal 19-20k 5:00 to finish 5:16
Course:	Start is on the service road in the Cumberland heritage museum and has timing mats so I lined up a the back of the crowd (unfortuately it turned out that these were not active). We do 1 loop around the museum then out and east on Old Montreal road and down a long steep hill. Turn right into a neighbourhood and wind our way through a 1k loop back onto Montreal road. Turn south on Kinsella/Lough roads which is a 2.5k of long hills. Turn west on Wilhaven (5k)for the last hill then straight and flat for about 5k to another 2k neighbourhood loop up Royal Maple, down Milburn, turn east back on Wilhaven (11k). Another 3k of straight and flat until turning north up Frank Kenny (14k). Straight 1k with a long down and up grade back to Old Montreal Rd. Turn east and straight back to Cumberland village. Last 5k has a few rolling hills, 1 steep downhill, but is net downhill. Turn back into museum at 20.5k and run a long loop around the museum service road to the finish chute.
Keeping cool	Good	Drinking	Not enough

Post race
Weight change:	%
Overall:
Mental exertion [1-5]
Physical exertion [1-5]
Good race?

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]	3