(8:45 pace) What FUN!!!
I helped Laszlo and LaurenO from the blog - their running group was pacing for the Tucson 1/2 and Marathon today and they had some pacers back out at the last minute. So, I was "enlisted" to pace the first half of the 3:50 group (8:45 pace). I was supposed to run 16-18 miles anyway - so the plan was to run 17 with the group and then I would get a ride to the finish. There was some sort of mix-up with my ride, so after waiting around for quite a while (passing out gu and cleaning up water cups) I decided to try to find my own ride to the finish -- well, on the way there I saw "my" group just passing the 23 mile mark, so I jumped out there and ran in with them -- EVERY ONE of our "core" group (the ones that started with the 3:50 pace group, not the ones that we picked up along the way) came in 3:50 or under - Yea they rocked, and many of them qualified for Boston today!! This was my first run over 16 miles, so it was a milestone for me too! I had stopped my watch at mile 17 (2:29:15), but I the last 2.5 were in the 8:45 or faster range, so I would guess the overall time to be around 2:48 or 2:50. | 