I woke up at 5:15 and had maybe 3 hours of sleep. I can't sleep the night before. I did lay in bed and tossed and turned for atleast 7 hours...I slept a lot on the way up there so maybe I had adequate sleep. Any who....My garmin time said 2 hours but had me at 13.22 miles and when I crossed the finish it said 2:05 but then my official time was 2:02: 48. I ran 18 minutes quicker than last year!
I won't give a play by play only b/c I don't remember every mile b/c now it is Sunday I'm writing this. And forgive me if it seems all over the place and in no particular order!
Race started on time at 7am. We ran near the capitol building, ran through some forests, lots of bodies of water, up and down hills. It was great. Friday and Sunday were both sunny warmish days, but Saturday was my perfect race weather--overcast! I think it was in the high 50's! Even better!
I brought cherrios with me so that my pre run food wasn't different. I also ate some chia seeds. I wore my committment skirt, my new nike profit shirt (I Love this shirt, I have one in pink), my buff, and my spibelt.
According to my Garmin I even had some sub 9 miles, that was in the beginning and I forced myself to slow down b/c I didn't think I could make it going that speed for 13 miles!
While in the truck on the way to Madison I kept reading "Born to Run". I read a lot and a lot of it. I think I just got passed the Leadville race and I went to bed Friday night. It was so inspirational to me. I have about 20 more pages to go now and I am still loving it. I feel like implementing so many of the things they talked about in the book. I love reading about evolution and different cultures--adding in running made it for a very interesting book.
After the race, we went back to the hotel to shower and take a nap. Then we went to the zoo (very cool zoo if you ever have a chance to go--in fact I like it better than Brookfield Zoo in Illinois, and it is free) We got dinner and then played in the pool and in the hot tub whirlpool thing. I attribute all that to not really hurting today.
I am having some uncomfortableness in my pelvis when I walk. But I figure a day or two of rest will cure it.
Oh and I seriously am thinking about moving to Madison. There are RUNNERS everywhere. We talked to our waitress and she said that it is a big running town. I asked, "well what happens during the winter?" She said that they still run! I"m like Wow I"m all alone when I run in the winter! There are so many paths, and actual bike paths on the streets. Plus all the bodies of water are great for fishing and othe water sports. I was so happy with the beauty of this place.
And I really felt that the 1/2 was really well organized for it being their first. They do have a full marathon in May --so maybe that was good practice.
My only complaint was that on Friday it was UW Madison't move in day for the student so it took forever to get downtown to get to the building where the packet pick up was. But I figure if they had the 1/2 before students came back from summer vacay there would be less participants.
Splits
1: 9:23
2: 8:47
3: 8:59
4: 8:51
5: 8:58
6: 9:03
7: 9:09
8; 9:09
9: 9:20
10: 9:22
11: 9:16
12: 9:08
13: 8:54
.1: 8:13 | 