It was a bit disappointing race for me. I felt like I peeked yeasterday and I felt very ready but the execusion was horrible. I ran the first mile way too fast 6:12. I don;t know what I was thinking. It actually didn't feel that fast. I didn't think I was doing 6:12 as I was running it. People were passing me all the time. Then the next two miles I totally bonked I did mile 2 in 7:06 and the third one 7:04 and the last 0.11 in 43 seconds which is more like 6:31 pace (the last 0.25 miles were down hill). After 1.5 I was feeling really tired and at the 2.5 mile I was in trouble. I finished strong but that was kinda too late. I'm not sure what went wrong but it wasn't my day. The result is not bad. I ran 21:03 in April but I am quite disappointed. I will be 39 next month and I feel like the wondow of opportunity to run close to 20 minutes is closing on me.
Over all it was a relatively big race and it was VERY well organized. It was sponsored by the IT companies in the research park and they spent lots of money on it. So they had tons of food and beaverages for afterwards and even ice cream and they even gave a way a lenovo laptop in a raffle and pretty big money prizes for such a local race ($125, 75, 50 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in both male and female categories). The first guy broke the course record in 14:40 - Wow!
0:21:04
Some lame excuses:
1. The start line was VERY narrow. I sucked because I had to navigate between slow people for the first 1/4 mile. But my 1 mile split was actually very fast.
2. The y didn't have a mat on the start line and it was by the gun. So I recorded my own time with my watch. But I don;t like that.
3. The weather was horrible. 75F and 90% humidity. I was already sweating at the start line. My times deteriorate with heat and especially with humidity.
4. The race was scheduled for yesterday but was postponed to today because of Hanna. I think psychologically it affected me.
5. Due to the race being postponed my taper was too long and too deep. I think I peeked yesterday and today I just didn't have it in me. | 