Forums >Racing>Sub-90 Minutes for the Half Marathon (2011)
Oh for heaven's sake, man.
We're about a week out from Tom King. Hope you two are keeping loose and ready for liftoff.
"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
Is that at me or the Tom King runners or did you just get puked on?
You. Not too much longer.
Can I join this, Nads? I was supposed to go down and race Tom King again but it's looking unlikely now. Staying home and running a 10 miler I think.
Anyway...I guess Rockford, IL 1/2 on May 15
You in, girl.
Word
You can't talk to me that way. I'm an 89er.
Then act like one.
OK, dad.
Uh oh.
Not sure if I signed myself up for this.. but 1:28:59 by my watch today. Official results apparently not out yet, but I'd be surprised if it was more than a few seconds different.
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Nice job PR. Now I know why that is your screen name. How was your pacing overall and first mile or two???
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nice work -- congrats
2012= under-goaled
1000 -nan:-nan 2000 4:10 3000 4:03 4000 4:08 5000 4:06 6000 3:59 7000 3:60 8000 4:12 9000 4:26 10000 4:10 11000 4:11 12000 4:10 13000 4:09 14000 4:06 15000 4:13 16000 4:19 17000 4:08 18000 4:11 19000 4:24 20000 4:23 21000 4:16 21222 0:56
Derived km splits from my garmin data (not sure what happened to the first one). Although they look a bit uneven I think that's mostly to do with the hills and wind (although it was a pretty flat course). I was feel pretty good up to about 15km and certainly was breathing pretty hard in the last few km. For a while in the first half I thought I might do a little better, but I'm glad I resisted the temptation to push any harder as I don't think it would have helped overall. Possibly I could have run the last few hundred metres a little harder, but that wouldn't have made a huge difference.
The first few hundred metres were slow due to the crowds, but I remember checking at the first mile marker and the pace was about right at that point.
(BTW, the screen name is a hang-over from the user ids we were all given on the university mainframe, back in the days when people used such things and I've just got into the habit of using it on forums and such - it's derived from my initials and the number is, presumably that I was the 100th person with the initials PR to be given a user id.)
The first is 4:18. The 5k splits tell a better story about pacing really, you can see I faded a bit in the last 6km:
5000 20:46 10000 20:47 15000 20:49 20000 21:25 21222 5:13