Weekend Bling Report
DavidMartinez2
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Did you race this weekend? Tell us all about it! We want to hear about the good, bad, ugly, whatever!
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I ran my first half marathon in Missoula MT on Sunday! I alternate between walking and running and finished in 3 hours...15 minutes faster than I was hoping. Loved it! Amazing atmosphere and beautiful scenery along the route...even if I had to be up at 3 am to get ready. Also did their 3 mile beer run Friday night and their 5K, in the rain, on Saturday. It was an awesome weekend.1
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Big Dog Heat Wave 5 Miler on Saturday here in Columbus, GA. Slower than the last time I ran it so a little disappointed. Good time either way.0
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Congrats on your first half jcurrie0
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Great half marathon jcurrie17. I was registered but had to defer it to next year after I injured my hip flexor. My husband ran the full marathon and said that the support and organization was great. Perhaps I will see you next year.
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I ran a 15k this past weekend, the Utica (NY) Boilermaker. It was hot, too crowded and kind of miserable. I expected to be faster but I guess everyone has off days. I want to redeem myself next year though!0
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I ran my first trail race last weekend. Half marathon in 3:18... Almost twice my road time. It was a lot of fun and I'm now officially in love with trails!1
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Mine was a beautiful run. The Pear Fair 5-miler, in the small town of Courtland, CA.
Courtland is located down along the Sacramento River. Population 355.
The race had no starting gun and no strip you cross to activate your chip. The school principal (or somebody official) simply said: On your mark, get set, GO!
And a cheer rose up from the small knot of spectators (a small voice): "Go poppa!"
It's all pear trees everywhere you look. We ran along a dirt road through the orchards. They warned us about bees before the race. Fortunately, no one got stung -- not that I know of.
It was warm and swallows swirled overhead and the air smelled of the country.
Afterwards, pear pie, pear fritters, pear pancakes, etc., were had by all.
Mighta been the best race I have ever been to.2 -
Small local 5k this morning. I trained hard yesterday (run and bike) and don't do that the day before racing. I saw this race late yesterday and decided to see how my body felt in the morning. Set a new PR of 19:11. I was first female and 2nd runner overall. Did I mention it was a puny little race?0
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Fayetteville half marathon 1:29! 70 degrees, 70 degree dew point and 90% humidity, so I felt good about this effort wherein I kept my average below goal marathon pace for Chicago despite the conditions and hills.
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Thames Path Challenge, 100km. 15:02. Couple of injuries around 70km and 85km made it a painful finish but I am so happy with the achievement.
Didn't hit "the wall" at any point and also managed to somehow avoid any of the mental "I was to stop now" problems.
Just looking forward to having a week of relaxing.0 -
Bottle and Cork 10 Miler in Dewey Beach, DE. 12 OA, 3rd in AG in 1:07:02 (6:43 pace).0
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Suwanee Fest 5K and 10K this weekend. Not a highly competitive race set, but I like doing the back-to-back and it fits my training for an end of October half marathon.
5K was mildly intentionally slow (24:00/7:45) 22nd overall, 2nd in my age group.
10K wasn't as fast as I would have liked (47:12/7:36) 6th overall, won my age group. Only part of the race that makes me mad ... if I had just run the 10K and hit it at my Peachtree Road Race pace (43:16).......I would have won it.0 -
The 2015 MVP Rochester Half Marathon was the fourth half in the Four Seasons Challenge, giving me the last piece of the 4-part medal for the series. Got great weather, 54° and cloudy at the start with maybe 8 mph wind. New course, and somewhat challenging with 5 miles mostly downhill, 5 miles mostly uphill, and an up and down last 5K with a killer hill around mile 11.
I knew what was coming, and planned my race accordingly. The plan worked well. I finished 36th of 2193, 1st of 74 in the M 55-59 age group, with a PR gun time of 1:30:21.
The associated full marathon turns out to be a double Boston qualifier, good for 2016 or 2017. I personally know two runners who achieved their first BQ today at Rochester. One of them is going to hop on the Boston registration tomorrow morning, and I don't know about the other.
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Forgot to post. Ventura Marathon in California. Didn't reach my primary goal of under 3 hours but still PR'd with a 3:03:32! I will keep chipping away at it.
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Princeton HM this morning. Ran a 1:43:38, which is a new PR by about 9.5 minutes, and beats even my A goal (was 1:45) for my fall HM races. So I'll have to set an even tougher goal for Baltimore in 2 weeks!0
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Clarendon HM today, trail run that's the latter half of a Marathon between Salisbury and Winchester (the originals).
Hard going with some cheeky elevation but I managed a 2:13, slightly slower than I'd hoped for but my training has been off form for a couple of months due to changes in my working pattern.0 -
I ran Princeton too, spur of the moment (i.e., my friend got sick. ) It was my first half after my disastrous Love Run this spring when I was injured and came in about eight minutes short of my PR. Today was my second best half time ever (first was Princeton last year), so with only about half my season's training under my belt, I definitely can't complain! 1:57:36. My goal was just to come in under 2:00.0
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I ran the Runner's Flat 50K. Consisted of two loops with a water crossing by canoe. I felt really strong and was easing my way up to the front and had the master's division clinched and felt strongly that I could have gotten into 3rd overall if not 2nd. Then I came up to the canoe crossing a third time! I don't know how I missed the turn and then reentered the trail behind myself but I did. Backtracked too far and still missed the turn, had to walk and figure out where I was at before I found myself. Ended up adding a couple of miles and losing my podium finish. 9th overall, 3rd in masters. Outside of getting lost, I had a wonderful race and after race festivities. Stayed to the end and congratulated the last runner across the finish line (a woman who came all the way from Australia, not sure if she came for the race or just happened to be here in the states) She gave me a big hug after crossing.0
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Congrats on the impressive and classy finish. I'm sure that meant the world to that woman.0
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I ran the polar opposite of Chicago this weekend!
(This was the only real flat stretch--for a race with very little *numerical* elevation change, the whole thing was baby rollers.)
I (well aware that this was not a good idea) went out too fast and of course started dancing with the wall around mile 21, but more or less hung in there til the end. I was so, so relieved to see the "finish" banner up ahead...and so, so NOT to see the SHARP UPHILL RIGHT IN FRONT OF IT WTH.
3:28 is a *massive* PR for me, nearly an hour--and an age group BQ with room to spare. Neon shoes really do make you faster!
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37° and 12-15 mph W wind for the Finish Strong 15K, but there was no rain or snow as seemed possible from earlier weather forecasts. The race organizers saw me doing a warmup about the time they sent the early start off, and mistakenly identified me as an early start; but they came to check with me and corrected that. As a result of that glitch, I don't yet know the exact official time, but it should be in the 1:01:59 to 1:02:02 range, a 15K PR for me by over 2 minutes. Finished 9th overall and first in the M 55-59 age group, in a small field. (Less than 100 runners, but I didn't note the exact number on site and won't know until the results are posted online.) It felt like a good tuneup for my November 1 half marathon.
The medal isn't a pretty as the medals I get for finishing half marathons, but I had to earn this one by outrunning all the other old farts.0 -
Ran the Baltimore HM today! No BQ like @cheshirecatastrophe or AG award like @MobyCarp, but I managed a 1:44 on a challenging course after some dumb mistakes on my part this week because I was pretty flippant about running "just" a HM. Oops. But my secondary goal besides wanting to do 1:40 or faster (which I missed, obviously) was to be in the top 10% of finishers. I placed 552/7394 overall, 127/4354 women, and 40/586 women 20-24. So definitely hit that goal! Had I gotten the time I wanted though (1:39-and-change), I'd have been top 10 in my AG! Something to aim for, I guess!0
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Surprised myself a bit by shattering my goal at the Columbus marathon this weekend. Original goal was 3:43, which was a BQ with a 2 minute cushion, but I changed that to a 3:42 after seeing the BQ cutoff of BQ-2:28 for 2016. I stuck to my plan of going out with the 3:45 pace group and making up as much ground as I could at the end. Most proud of my quarter splits which were 8:35, 8:30, 8:20 and 7:55. Overall time was 3:38:26! BQ minus 6:34!0
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Ran a local 10k this weekend, took it slow as I'm coming back from injury but couldn't resist speeding up for the last mile, probably not the best idea as my hamstring is hurting again today. It felt great to be in a race again, just hope I haven't done myself any long term damage by speeding up towards the end. I enjoyed myself so much I've booked another 10k for 2 weeks time and a half for February 20160
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Scare Brain Cancer Away 5K today was the 10th of 12 races in the Rochester Runner of the Year series. The series is scored on the best 6 results a runner has, so no one has to run all 12 races to compete. This was my 7th RROY race this year. I finished in 19:31 gun time, winning the male 55-59 age group for the race and clinching the age group for the series. The age group medal was a cheap generic thing that didn't say what the medal was for or even what year the race was; but you can't have everything. Clinching the series age group was more important to me than the medal for the race.0
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Ran my first mid-distance race on 10/18 since my hip flexor injury in early April. Ran the half-marathon at a modest and restrained pace to protect what I've recovered (though I did have a right ankle injury issue from a missed step on a transit bus a few weeks ago). It was cold and on a somewhat hilly course I ran a modest 2:04:45 but came away feeling very good about the effort, the relative ease of my running and the state of my recovery. There is more speed to be had.
I ran a 4K trail race yesterday on 10/24 (the trail is just across the road from where I live and I use it all the time for my shorter weekday runs and as a starter and ending to my longer weekend runs). It has a monster of a hill and three shorter climbs (two at the beginning and one at the very end). I know this trail well enough that I can (and do) run it in the dark (with and without lights, though it is always advisable to have some lighting on you to avoid getting run over in the dark by some cyclist).
My goal was to run it in 20:00 or better. Completed it in 19:33.52 and won the 60-69 male age group. Could have run it faster but I conserved enough on the hills, including the big one to feel good through the entire distance. Most fun was the person who was trying to run me down in the last 100-150 meters and didn't expect me to have such a kick at the end. I could hear their foot falls behind me and to my right as I and they initially accelerated through the final section and the last turn. But they never caught me and in the last 25 meters I was pulling away. Those strides, 400m and 800m repeats were good for something because when I called for power, it was there in a big way.0 -
Congrats on the BQs and the AG awards!
Earlier this week I jumped on a comp entry to the CGI Perfect 10 Miler (largest women only 10 miler in the US) today. I had just run a surprisingly fast tempo run, so I knew I had a strong finish in me. I figured I would be thrilled if I beat my prior 10k PR pace, 8:42. Instead, I hit 8:35 for a 1:25:51 finish! That was a PR by three minutes. I have been training for the Philly Half Marathon as my A race this season and there are still five weeks left so I am feeling fantastic. I went out with the 8:30 pacer figuring I would see how I felt. She didn't go out fast like they often do, so it was a great strong start for me. I stayed with her for three miles then let myself slow down a bit at a water stop. I realized I forgot my Garmin when I got to the starting line, so I set Strava to announce my splits every half mile. It worked just fine - I actually might prefer it, in combination with a pacer.0 -
@MobyCarp Congrats on the AG award! That's an excellent time!
@STrooper Congrats on your AG award as well! Glad those strides and repeats served you well!
@sarahz5 Congrats on the PR! That's a great pace for a 10 miler! You'll crush your A-race in Philly!
So many great races run this weekend! Great job, all!0 -
A couple of weeks late in reporting but I did the Tyler Texas Rose Half-marathon on October 11th. My son ran the full marathon. HARDEST course I've ever done. Hills hills and more hills. I was told if you can do Tyler you can do just about any course out there. I feel good about my time, only 15 minutes longer than my average time. I'm a "slow" runner and finished in just over 3 hours but right in the middle of my age group.
Take aways from the race:
Always look at the race profile BEFORE registering. lol
I know to prep better for hills though, my calves cramped up at mile 11 and it was painful finishing.
Small races are a totally different type of race. We had about 1000 people total in Tyler between the two races. Many of the races I'm used to running have 20,000 or more people running. Large races allow you to hide but small races give you room to set your pace earlier.1