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Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half Marathon

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Location:

Littleton,CO,USA

Member Since:

Aug 04, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Boston Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

I've run off and on (more off than on) throughout my adult life. Most recently I started running in May of 2007.

5K PR: Colder Bolder in December 2009 in 22:50.

10k PR: Bolder Boulder in May 2009 in 48:06.13.

1/2 Marathon PR: Canyonlands Half-Marathon in March 2010 in 1:43:20.

Marathon PR: Newport (Oregon) Marathon in June 2010 in 3:42:17.

I have completed two full marathons.

Short-Term Running Goals:

Get back to consistent running.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Sub 3:30 marathon.

Personal:

I grew up in Utah, but live in Colorado now.

I am married and am a working mother of four children, ages 9-19.

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Lunarracer Lifetime Miles: 284.91
Brooks Adrenaline Trail Lifetime Miles: 574.62
Brooks Green Silence Lifetime Miles: 681.13
Brooks Adrenaline 10 (2) Lifetime Miles: 424.52
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
28.060.1528.21
Brooks Green Silence Miles: 9.03Brooks Adrenaline 10 (2) Miles: 19.18
Night Sleep Time: 25.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 25.00
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
4.000.004.00

Easy run.

6:36 am, 57° F, 41% humidity, wind 3 SSE.

Just a short easy run with Carly.

Today is the first day of school for my Freshman son. The others start tomorrow.

AP: 10:03. Splits: 10:35, 9:57, 9:49, 9:59.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 4.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00
Comments(7)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
6.030.006.03

Easy run.

6:34 am, 59°F, 76% humidity, wind 2 SSE.

I couldn't get ahold of Carly yesterday so I ran all by myself today. I was going to take my iPod but I had misplaced my headphones and didn't have time to look for them. During the run I remembered where I had put them and sure enough, that's where they were when I got home.

It was a relatively uneventful run. The strangest thing was that in the last half, I ran faster on the uphills than on a long downhill stretch. I think I was daydreaming on the downhill. The downhill went past the high school and the middle school. It was getting close to starting time for the middle school (the high school starts 15 minutes later than the middle school) and there was all kinds of traffic from parents dropping off their kids at the middle school. The drop off at the middle school is a nightmare. As I was running, I thought about how glad I am that I don't have a kid at the middle school for the next three years.

When I had about .4 miles to go my husband called me and I told him I was almost done. He must have told our daughter, because she was out waiting in front of the house with a cup of water and a paper towel for me when I got home.

AP: 9:57. Splits: 9:58, 10:21, 9:44, 10:01, 10:08, 9:34.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (2) Miles: 6.03
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
Comments(4)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
5.030.005.03

Easy run.

6:34 am, 63°F, 53% humidity, wind 3 ENE.

I ran with Carly this morning. She's turning into a great running buddy. She's planning a 10 mile race in the Fall, so she's motivated to run regularly right now. Today we talked about animal sacrifice, among other things. She spent a semester in Nepal when she was in college and witnessed the sacrifice of a goat. She also said if they couldn't afford a goat, they used a zucchini instead and stuck sticks in it so that it would stand up like an animal. This subject  came up because I'm reading a book called The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. It's about a Hmong family from Laos who came to California as refugees in the 80s. They had a daughter with severe epilepsy. The book is about the conflict between the Hmong culture and religion and Western medicine. There is quite a bit of discussion of animal sacrifice in the book. Carly recommended the book to me.

I've got to decide whether I'm going to get up early tomorrow morning and drag myself up to Georgetown to run that half marathon that I foolishly registered for. It could really go either way at this point.

AP: 9:54. Splits: 9:53, 10:00, 9:48, 9:58, 9:49.

Brooks Green Silence Miles: 5.03
Night Sleep Time: 7.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50
Comments(3)
Race: Georgetown to Idaho Springs Half Marathon (13.15 Miles) 02:05:53, Place overall: 1234, Place in age division: 83
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
13.000.1513.15

I hesitated to make this a race report, because I didn't really race it. However, it was officially a race.

I was debating as recently as yesterday whether to run it, but Bonnie and JD said that I should, and so I did.

I got up at 5:09 (5:00 alarm plus one snooze). We left the house at about 5:35. I made my husband drive me. This is the third time I've run this race and every time I make him drive me to the start and then pick me up at the finish, even though you can park at the finish and take a bus up to the start.

I was supposed to pick up my race packet last weekend at a Runner's Roost store in Denver, but I didn't do it. So I went a little earlier this morning than I normally would have because I needed to pick it up before the race. It turned out that I didn't need to go as early as I did. Oh well. At least we got decent parking at the start.

After I got my race number, we spent some time just sitting in the car. I did step out once for a port-a-potty visit, and then it was more sitting in the car. I noticed that there was a woman by herself in the car next to us. So when it was time to start walking to the start for the start of the race, I got out of my car and spoke to her and then we stuck together until the race started. It was nice to have someone to talk to and not be all by myself before the race. But we split up at the starting line and I never saw her again. I didn't stick around very long after the race and I didn't see her there.

They had pacers at this race, which I hadn't seen before at this race. Maybe they started it last year. I didn't run this race last year. In any case, we lined up a ways behind the 2:20 pacer. The first couple of miles of this race are miserable because you have to run this loop around Georgetown and then you pass the start again and head down the frontage road towards Idaho Springs. The loop around Georgetown is very congested and it's hard to get past people. However, I did manage to pass the 2:20 pacer and the 2:15 pacer in those first two miles. For most of the rest of the race I could see the 2:10 pacer a ways ahead but I never seemed to gain on her. I figured for a 2:10 finish she should be running 10 minute miles, and I thought I was running a bit under 10:00, so I should have been gaining on her. I finally passed her with a couple of miles to go.

I really took this race pretty slow and easy. I kept thinking of it as just a regular Saturday long run at a comfortable pace. As a result, I was not as uncomfortable as I was last time I ran this race. The time actually passed fairly pleasantly. After about 6 miles I tried to pick the speed up just a little bit, and then with 3 miles to go, I picked it up a little more and then pushed about the last quarter of a mile. I passed quite a few people in the last quarter of a mile.

There were aid stations every two miles, but I skipped the 2 mile stop and the 6 mile stop. So I walked a few steps and drank some water at 4, 8, 10, and 12 miles. It was shady for the first two miles and then after that there was hardly any shade. In about the last 4 miles, there were sometimes small shady spots at the edge of the road from trees. Everyone shifted to the side of the road where there was a little shade. I did that except when it contradicted the tangent badly.

That's pretty much the story of the race. Not very exciting. Now I'm tired and useless for the rest of the day.

Stats are based on the auto lap of my Garmin and my Garmin measured long - 13.15 instead of 13.10.

AP: 9:34. Splits: 10:29, 9:56, 9:49, 9:36, 9:51, 9:38, 9:25, 9:33, 9:31, 9:27, 9:09, 9:20, 9:00, 0.15 @ 7:41.

Brooks Adrenaline 10 (2) Miles: 13.15
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00
Comments(9)
Slow milesFast milesTotal Distance
28.060.1528.21
Brooks Green Silence Miles: 9.03Brooks Adrenaline 10 (2) Miles: 19.18
Night Sleep Time: 25.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 25.00
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