During my four month layoff from marathons I think I forgot that they
can be quite tiring. Fortunately tomorrow I will forget and start
looking forward to the next.
Don't you wish there was a direct correlation between the degree of
suffering and your race times? If there was, I would have definitely run a
sub 2:30. Instead, I still sufficiently suffered starting at mile 18 and ended up with an
average finish. For some reason things just didn't click and I am
partly to blame because I probably went out a bit fast (1:15 out and
1:21 back). One thing I was really looking forward to during this race
was gauging my HR and never getting above 165. To my great
disappointment the HR function on my garmin didn't work for some
reason and I ended up lugging that heavy strap for 26.2 for no reason (at least +10 secs, right?). Of course after the race I turned the garmin off and then on
and it worked perfectly. Doh! Lesson to be learned is to turn on your
Garmin at least 15 mins before a race to ensure everything works.
Back to the not clicking part of the race. I thought I did everything
right, i.e. waking up at 4, showering, eating a good breakfast, and
getting to the race early. What I can't figure out is that my stomach
still felt really full throughout the entire race and I didn't even
have the appetite to take a Gel. I did force one down at mile 16
because I knew I needed it but it left me feeling nauseous. I think
next time I will get up even earlier and avoid all fats in my breakfast
because I don't think I can digest them as quickly. This means PB will
have to go, at least for one meal. :) My legs also felt a little dead and I never felt that gliding/effortless sensation at any point in the race.
All was not lost however and I still finished a respectable 6th, one place
out of the money. My time was 3 minutes faster than my previous
fastest time at SLC and I think this course was about 1 minute slower.
I would like to know who decided to have us go all the way to south
temple on state street instead of turning at about 4th south like in
the past. That hill killed me (6:42 mile).
Congrats to everyone who ran today at SLC and everywhere else! Aren't we lucky to have so many races to choose from? Those half runners were blazing fast.
No HR :(
| Time |
Distance |
Split time |
Elev. chg. |
| 0:05:22 |
1 |
5:22 |
-97 |
| 0:10:58 |
2 |
5:35 |
18 |
| 0:16:22 |
3 |
5:24 |
-150 |
| 0:21:48 |
4 |
5:25 |
-115 |
| 0:27:34 |
5 |
5:46 |
-48 |
| 0:33:24 |
6 |
5:49 |
-2 |
| 0:39:22 |
7 |
5:58 |
54 |
| 0:45:14 |
8 |
5:51 |
10 |
| 0:51:20 |
9 |
6:05 |
71 |
| 0:57:01 |
10 |
5:41 |
-74 |
| 1:02:46 |
11 |
5:44 |
-56 |
| 1:08:47 |
12 |
6:00 |
31 |
| 1:14:53 |
13 |
6:06 |
43 |
| 1:20:39 |
14 |
5:45 |
-83 |
| 1:26:27 |
15 |
5:48 |
-80 |
| 1:32:20 |
16 |
5:52 |
-55 |
| 1:38:11 |
17 |
5:51 |
13 |
| 1:44:11 |
18 |
5:59 |
-42 |
| 1:50:14 |
19 |
6:03 |
-5 |
| 1:56:23 |
20 |
6:07 |
1 |
| 2:02:36 |
21 |
6:13 |
22 |
| 2:08:51 |
22 |
6:15 |
-29 |
| 2:15:17 |
23 |
6:25 |
19 |
| 2:21:41 |
24 |
6:24 |
-24 |
| 2:28:24 |
25 |
6:42 |
86 |
| 2:34:56 |
26 |
6:31 |
-79 |
| 2:36:27 |
26.24 |
1:31 |
90 |
| 
