04-21-2008, 07:42 PM | #1 |
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Salt Lake Half Marathon
Ran it on Saturday. It turned out ok. My plan after my disastrous half two weeks ago was just to come in under 2 hours this time.
I should have lined up farther back at the start, because I got caught up in the wave, and found myself running a 7:45/mile pace for the first three miles. I have no business running that fast for anything over a 5k, and I definitely paid for it later. I was good until about 9 miles, my overall pace was about 8:19/mile, and then I hit the wall. I've never had to walk during a half marathon, but I had to take brief walk breaks starting at about mile 9. So my pace kept getting slower and slower. With about 3/4 mile left in the race, I was pretty much spent. I was walking a lot, and all of a sudden someone slapped me really hard on the back, which woke me up from my funk. I looked over and it was a girl from my office. So I started running with her, and we did the 3/4 mile at a 7:50 pace. She really helped me out a ton. She's a good runner, she finished in the top 6% of all women in the half. Anyway, I finished in 1:53. Six minutes slower than last year, which kind of bugs me, but I was much better about running through the winter in '06 than I was last year. This was also a good lesson about not starting out too fast. I tried to hang on the last 4 miles, but just couldn't do it. Gotta get in better shape. |
04-21-2008, 07:48 PM | #2 |
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Some day you will be faster than my almost 66 year old mom.
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04-21-2008, 07:53 PM | #3 |
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04-21-2008, 08:33 PM | #4 |
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Way to gut it out man. It seems to be a real art to pace oneself in such a long race. I wonder if anyone ever really gets it down.
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04-21-2008, 08:35 PM | #5 |
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Nice work, RC. 1:53 is a very respectable time, regardless of whether or not you walked. How was the weather this weekend?
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04-21-2008, 08:51 PM | #6 | |
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Weather was fine. It was pretty windy, but it was at our backs as much as it was in our faces, so I can't complain. |
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04-25-2008, 02:30 PM | #7 |
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I was just perusing the results page and I recognized 4 people from Redding. The guy that finished 8th overall is a kid that bluegoose and I have raced against many times in the summer and winter 4 mile race series here (when I say raced against I use the term loosely, we started at the same starting line). The other Reddingites are now from Highland; I see my old bishop ran a 6:57 pace at age 46. I didn't realize how big that race is.
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