On the road again...
I'm out of town for the week - hanging in Charleston after the Bridge Run for a vacation - so I'll be a little sparse this week.
Totals for last week, which saw nanxin get the gold star:
I write. I read. I run. One time, I ran a lot on my 50th birthday.
Paul
I think Mike is doing his taper for Boston so that's why, I am also in my taper for RaceFest, so I will have low 30's this week and less than 30 next week.
Scheduled Races:
Tokyo Marathon (March 2020)
Boston Marathon (April 2020)
Congrats on the Gold Star nanxin! I can see by your running log that you've been making tremendous progress over the past year.
Good luck in that RaceFest Half Marathon. I ran it last year and it's a good race but pretty tough because of several big hills.
Richard Hefner Past Race Results (Athlinks)
I heard that the course is hilly, how does it compare to Dwod Y half? I ran that last Nov, the hill around the Myers Park High almost killed me...
I haven't run the Dowd Y half so I don't know how they compare. I've run a lot of Charlotte races but I never know where I'm at, although it does seem like a lot of them cover the same ground.
Shashi ran the Racefest half last year and he's got a better memory for that kind of stuff than I do, so maybe he'll say.
Nanxin, Both courses are in my log. While nothing in Charlotte is flat, You decide which of the two is easier.
http://www.runningahead.com/logs/f97b2a1644924a698752ba0a1e01a44c/courses/5b6dca3ab2eb4dcaa71b9ecc2c046e10
http://www.runningahead.com/logs/f97b2a1644924a698752ba0a1e01a44c/courses/1b9b31210682486bbbe2c66cd8aa7ec3
I personally like the Racefest course between the two as I don't have to worry about the uphill finish, which you'll have for any race starting and ending in Downtown/uptown. The hill in mile 7-8 always kills me at Racefest, once I get over that, I know I am home
Nanxin (how do you prefer to be called btw?),
if I was you, I would run the last half of the Racefest course for one of your easy runs to get an idea of what you'll be facing. I live in South Park and you have a lot of steeper hills that are 300m to 600m in length (so in a given mile this is where all of the elevation lies and these always seem to sap strength vs. a gradual 1% or 2% grade). The hill up Valentine Terrace to Arbor Way (when you cross Fairview) is steep. There is another steep hill about 1/2 mile fr Arbor Way, and at around 12.5 miles you'll be greeted by a steep hill up Barclay Downs fr Ferncliff to Schofield (these are somewhat similar to the grade of the hill in the DowdY 1/2 after that Myers Pk HS hill where you had to climb up Colony and then Roswell).
Rob
While I did not forget the steep hills Rob mentions, they are mercifully short at .3 - .5 miles unlike the one on Sharon View Rd once you take the right turn from Providence, which goes on forever. I've heard many people groan at the sight of another hill on Foxcroft though, any hill in mile 11 will do that.
Shashi and Rob, thank you very much for your insight on the course, I was studying the evelation profile of the coruse in the last couple of days, the hill from mi 7 to mi 8 definately drawed my attention, I have a colleage lived in that area and he jogs around there every day, he also suggested that I should at least see it before the race. Another 2 hills I noticed are those Rob mentioned, one before the turn to arbor way and one before the turn to ferncliff rd. they can be tough especially for people like me who lack of long period of training.
I will have 4 friends run with me, one is a seasoned runner who is BQer and I don't need to worry about, other 3 are running their first half marathon or even their first race and they registered teh race partitally becuase of me, like Richard to his grandson, I don't want this one is their first and last race. I think all the information I got here can get me and them prepared for the race. Thanks.
BTW, my name is Han Zhang, Nanxin is my network name for last 10 years, so both work for me.
Are we there yet?
My highest finish ever Saturday at the Marti Estes 5k in Mooresville... 5th out of 515 finishers. Okay, maybe a couple hundred of 'em were walking, but still it's nice to be up near the front every once in a while.
http://me5k.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2011_Marti_Estes_5k_race_results_Mooresville_NC.pdf
Way to run Richard! Congratulations.
Anybody considering the chance to become the fastest in Charlotte for the mile?
http://www.charlottemuseummile.com/
Looks fun, and it gives me a chance to bring my daughters for free.
Anybody considering the chance to become the fastest in Charlotte for the mile? http://www.charlottemuseummile.com/ Looks fun, and it gives me a chance to bring my daughters for free.
Not me... I might do it if they're looking for the slowest mile. Lynwood, the last 1-miler I did was the Miles of Mooresville we did 2 years ago and I don't think I'll ever do another one... I'm definitely not a sprinter. I know you're great on the shorter distances though... go for it!
under a rock
Congrats, Richard! I looked at the times of the rest of the field and there were lots of people in the low 20:00's so I'd still be quite proud. It looks like over half the field were actually running and not walking.