Apple Hill Harvest Run
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Apple Hill Harvest Run - Run3.5 Mile
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Comments: Ok, let me qualify this. I'd run 16 the day before and I figured I would run this and let the body do what it wanted to do. The start line was really, really tight... they had at least 500 people doing the 3.5 miler (there was also an 8.5 mile option) so the start was really slow... I'm sure I lost at minute at the beginning dodging people and trying to find room. The first mile was pretty difficult, especially considering the entire course was above 3,000 feet and I'd been training at sea level all of this year - or close to it. This is my highest altitude race to date, and getting my breathing under control was the biggest challenge. My legs felt good the entire run, it was getting 0hhhhhhh Two into my lungs that was the issue when I'd step on the gas. But man, I love running in hills. I drop people like bad dates. What was really cool about this run is I was dropping people going DOWNHILL as well. That's never really happened before. I just let gravity drag me down and I was actually resting on the downhills. The other cool thing is my conditioning is MUCH, much better than it was in Jackson running on the two hilly courses they have in town - the UMC med campus and the Belhaven market loop. I felt better on this course even though it was far more difficult than either of those courses... If I'd tried doing this kind of a run a year ago, I'd have ended up walking much of it. I did walk for about 20 seconds on the final 1/2 mile because my heart rate was zooming through the ceiling on the grade. Oh, and only 3 strollers passed me and the guys that were pushing 'em looked like they were going to croak, rather than me looking like the one that was going to croak. What would you do differently?: Nothing really. I wasn't planning on racing this race until I found out about it mid-week, and the whole purpose was to keep a 'race-atmosphere' in mental focus for CIM. Post race
Warm down: Walked around, dripping sweat. Watched some finishers. Found my results, and went home. What limited your ability to perform faster: Marathon training. If it seems worthwhile to blame that. :) I'm really better suited to race longer distances. Event comments: I enjoyed the race, the volunteers were great, course was tough. It made for a nice 'tune-up' and 'check on my fitness' race for CIM. Last updated: 2007-10-31 12:00 AM
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Age Group = 40-49
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Dragged myself out of bed at about 5 am. "Apple Hill" is an area located in the Sierra Foothills east of Placerville in Placer county. Basically, its orchards, wineries, etc. - those type of yuppie 'fru-fru' places that's packed during harvest season with forty gadzillion cars. In other words, its the perfect environment for a yuppie like me. :p
Took a shower, and hopped in Gus and drove out to Shingle Springs, where I car pooled with my friend Nicole to the race site (which was already a madhouse by 7:30 am).
Hung out with Nicole, who brought her 5 year old son and 3 year old daughter with us, and met another one of her friends - who is a transplanted Kiwi from the North Island of New Zealand. Nicole and I jogged about a 1/4 of a mile after the kids' races were over to warm over... and she is SUCH a run studette (she was one of the top female finishers at Eppie's Great Race in July) - even though she'd taken a few weeks off with a sore back caused by some surgery she'd had, she still considers a brisk 9:00ish jog an 'easy warm up', and, as I suspected after spending all season training at sea level in Sacramento, being at 3000' in hills was going to suck based on the warm-up. But that's OK (at least that's what I kept telling myself). I had no real big expectations as I'm not a short distance racer anyway - and I'd run 16 miles the day before so this was going to be 'recovery' if it was anything, but also a test of my fitness in a very different running environment than I'd ever raced in.