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Comments: As mentioned above, the race started at the bottom of a hill. Coach Jane warned me about it so I was well prepared mentally to face it. Thanks to Coach Duncan, I was also prepared for it physically. As I started up the hill, I just tried to keep a steady pace. I felt good at the top so I just maintained the same pace until my breathing had eased off a bit. By this time, I was feeling good and had gotten into a bit of a groove, I looked around and decided to use some of the other runners to help pace me with occasional glances at the watch to see what the GPS was telling me. I wanted to maintain a pace that would put me under my old PR but at the same time I was worried about going out too fast and burning out. As the race proceeded, things just kept going well. I was able to keep a pace that was for me aggressive but at the same time was able to dial it back a bit anytime I started to feel like my breathing was getting out of control. On one particular downhill (on the narrow path), I concentrated on "falling down" the hill. At other times, I concentrated on running relaxed, particularly relaxing my shoulders. At about the halfway point, a sidestitch was threatening so I really worked on my breathing and it never developed. On the last uphill, I did get into a little bit of trouble. The course does a little out and back on a sidestreet. Coming back out of that it is slightly uphill. I picked up the pace a bit (less than 1 km left), and by the end of the incline I started to feel a bit nauseated. I knew that as long as I kept running I was on pace for a PR so it didn't mentally bother me at all. I just slowed down slightly to let my tummy settle down but was still able to run a decent pace over the finish. What would you do differently?: Nothing. :-) Post race
Warm down: Walked around a bit, had some cookies, slices of orange and water. Event comments: With a time 1'12" better than my PR from 4 years ago, I'm just delighted with my performance. Last updated: 2007-11-03 12:00 AM
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Got up at about 7:15, had a shower to wake up. Breakfast was a glass of juice and a bowl of instant oatmeal. Left the house at about 8:15 to drive the the race site. Got there about 9:10, picked up my race kit and then sat in the car until it was time to warm up. It was cold out so I wanted to try to keep as warm and comfortable before the race as I could.
As Coach Jane had suggested, I ran an easy 10 minutes for a warmup. Then I crossed the road to the start area and walked back and forth. Did one pickup just to see how my legs felt. It was a little breezy at the start and the race started about 5 minutes late so I was getting a little cold by the time we started.