OK this was a mixed bag. On the one hand I ran a ~4 minute PR but my race was horrible. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what happened, so I will write more after work, but here are the splits: 1) 6:13 2) 5:51 3) 5:50 4) 5:46 5) 6:05 6) 5:52 7) 5:57 8) ??? mile marker in the middle of a water stop??? 9) 11:54 10) 5:57 11) 5:59 12) 5:55 13) 5:57 14) 5:59 15) 6:11 16) 5:58 17) 6:25 18) 6:28 19) 6:14 20) 6:29 21) 6:48 22) 6:13 23) 6:27 24) 6:21 25) 6:43 26.2) 8:12 As you can see it looks like I bonked, but I really wasn't that tired. I knew I was running slow after 17 but just didn't speed up. A few items I think might be contributing: 1) I was sick all last week and didn't really get better by race day. 2) I need to eat a bigger breakfast. 3) I need to train on more hills. 4) I need to not mentally check out after setting myself up for a great race! Live and learn I guess. So, after thinking about it some more I think some of my trouble was that I let my blood sugar get too low. I didn't eat enough breakfast and what I did eat was too early. Then I probably should have tried to keep the sugar coming in drinking a little more gatorade at the early water stops. I just don't remember feeling like I was hurting that much during the race and then today I don't really feel all that sore ... it doesn't seem that I ran up against my fitness level. Rather, I executed the race day prep really poorly. Any ideas from the more experienced folks out there? Oh one more fact. I nearly threw up at mile 12, again at mile 18, and again at 22 or so. I don't know how that fits in with everything else but maybe someone does?
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