Sub-90 Minutes for the Half Marathon (2011) (Read 6744 times)

2. Reno Stirrat (56), who logs his workouts on RA, ran New Bedford in 1:17:18.

I saw Reno in the finish chute, and chatted with him for about two seconds.  He was having a problem with his hamstring tightening up on him, and wasn't really happy with his race.  That's how to stay thirsty my friends.

Congrats on a damned nice run Matt, great to see you after the race.  With the lack of Shamrocks down there you would think New Bedford was a dry town.  I can assure you it's not.

Slimbo

success

1:29:00 net time

NYC Half

It was 38 at the start / 45 at the finish ... decent wind but is was mostly at the back.  [For CNY -- I make a point of running zig-zags [aka - Crazy Ivans] so the vertically challenged cannot draft off my 6"5" frame  ]   The first 7-8m are up and down hills in Central Park ... then flat for the balance of the race. I set my watch up to 1/2 mile splits so that I could monitor my pace more accurately -- normally my pace is all over the place. The only thing showing on my watch was my "interval pace" -- that's b/c nothing else really mattered.   I was trying to keep it around 645 ... but allot of the early race was more like 630 pace [some long down hills that I just took the brakes off and just ran what felt like comfortable pace] -- maybe just a little too aggressive -- on the right day and 10 lbs lighter -- I could maintain a 630 pace through the half -- but not today. I felt pretty "stressed" from about mile 10 to the finish. Looking at me HR data above 180 ... I can see that it wasn't in my head -- of course may pace slowed some as well.  Managed to pick it up the last mile. 

Anyway -- a 4+ minute improvement over my prior Half Marathon efforts. I also qualified for the NYC Marathon with a sub 130 finish.  Nice confidence boost for Boston in a month.  Quads are still trashed.

PS -- I got an email from NYRRC yesterday that said Congrats -- and listed my finish time as a 1:28:59 -- even though the results show a 1:29:00 -- one second sounds so much better -- will have to get to the bottom of that.

Hey should 1/2 require recovery? I ran a light 3 yesterday and did a hills workout today. My legs are D-E-D Dead! I felt reasonably ok after the race but I think it took a lot out of me ;(

Must have been something in the air Tim. Did we run the same race?

Slimbo

success

1:29:00 net time

NYC Half

 

It was 38 at the start / 45 at the finish ... decent wind but is was mostly at the back.  [For CNY -- I make a point of running zig-zags [aka - Crazy Ivans] so the vertically challenged cannot draft off my 6"5" frame  ]   The first 7-8m are up and down hills in Central Park ... then flat for the balance of the race. I set my watch up to 1/2 mile splits so that I could monitor my pace more accurately -- normally my pace is all over the place. The only thing showing on my watch was my "interval pace" -- that's b/c nothing else really mattered.   I was trying to keep it around 645 ... but allot of the early race was more like 630 pace [some long down hills that I just took the brakes off and just ran what felt like comfortable pace] -- maybe just a little too aggressive -- on the right day and 10 lbs lighter -- I could maintain a 630 pace through the half -- but not today. I felt pretty "stressed" from about mile 10 to the finish. Looking at me HR data above 180 ... I can see that it wasn't in my head -- of course may pace slowed some as well.  Managed to pick it up the last mile. 

Anyway -- a 4+ minute improvement over my prior Half Marathon efforts. I also qualified for the NYC Marathon with a sub 130 finish.  Nice confidence boost for Boston in a month.  Quads are still trashed.

 

PS -- I got an email from NYRRC yesterday that said Congrats -- and listed my finish time as a 1:28:59 -- even though the results show a 1:29:00 -- one second sounds so much better -- will have to get to the bottom of that.

Cool 44 degrees and some wind: Check

Set watch to 1/2 mile splits: Check

Try to keep around 6:45: Check

Stressed from mile 10 to finish: Check

4+ minute PR over earlier halfs: Check

Qualified for NYC marathon with sub 1:30: Check

Success: Check

Set my watch to read the single most important value to me: Average Pace

Seems we ran almost the same race. Just that I was doing the drafting throughout. And you officially went sub-89. Nice!

Nice racing slimbo and PaulyGram!

National Half-marathon. 1h22:00 woot !

New PR because it was my first

Not a bad start for a half.

Great job!!!

National Half-marathon. 1h22:00 woot !

New PR because it was my first

all right!  WTG!  Nice PR!