Run Entry


Info
Date:5/31/2008 8:12 AM
Type:Race
Course:River Towns Half Marathon
Distance:13.1 miles
Duration:1:47:11
Pace:8:11 / mile
Equipment:Mizuno Wave Rider 10 (blue)
Weight:141.0 lb
Misc:Quality: 9/10, Effort: 7/10
Field Placement:28 / 113 (24.8%)
Age group:21 – 25
Group Placement:1 / 4 (25%)
Gender Placement:19 / 67 (28.4%)
Weather:72° F, Overcast, Rain, Humid
Event URL:runhigh.com/2008%20Results/2008%20Results%20A/R053108AC.html
Notes:My plan was to go out really easy with a goal of under 2:00:00, which I knew I could easily achieve. I hadn't trained much for this race, and meant to do it mainly for the scenery and experience. It was a great success. I also knew that I would start racing at some point on the course, and was just trying to keep it easy for as long as possible. It ended up feeling fairly difficult at the end -- I wasn't running easy, but I wasn't running close to as hard as I could, either.

The first couple miles were right where I wanted to be pace-wise. The big-hill-caused slowdown in mile 3 (which doesn't show up in the splits because I missed the fourth mile marker) got me antsy and I started picking it up to just over 8 minute pace for 4 and 5. This trend continued all the way through to 9, the last mile marker I saw, after which I picked it up a little bit more and finished relatively hard.
Statistics:Calories: 1397
VO2 Max: 41.6

Intervals (race)
 TypeDistanceTimeTotal TimePaceAvg HRMax HRNotes
1Interval1 mi8:238:238:23  g:1.01
2Interval1 mi8:3416:578:34  g:1.00
3Interval2 mi17:3534:328:48  g:1.92
4Interval1 mi7:5642:287:56  g:1.02
5Interval2 mi16:2558:538:13  g:1.98
6Interval1 mi8:021:06:558:02  g:0.98
7Interval1 mi8:121:15:078:12  g:0.97
8Interval4.1 mi32:041:47:117:50  g:4.05 garmin-total:12.93

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