Surf City Half Marathon - RunHalf Marathon


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Huntington Beach, California
United States
Kinane Events
Sunny
 		Total Time = 2h 30m 52s
Overall Rank = 7642/11783
Age Group = W 50-54
Age Group Rank = 252/605
Pre-race routine:

Ate a couple ounces of sliced turkey and a sweet potato about three hours before the race. About two hours before, I had a date and a banana.
Event warmup:

Walking to the start line.
Run
  • 2h 30m 52s
  • 13.1 miles
  • 11m 31s  min/mile
Comments:

My hip flexors started hurting pretty early in the race, but it didn't affect anything much for a while. Gradually it got worse and by mile 11 I had to walk. Overall, even with having to walk two miles (and my increasingly slower pace the previous several miles), along with the complicated bathroom stop, I still pretty much made my goal time (2:30:52 v. goal time of 2:30).
What would you do differently?:

There is a "rule" about not trying anything new on race day. I bought a new race skirt the day before. It was a little big, but not too bad, or so I thought. The skirt is made to fit low on the hips. Less than five minutes into the race I realized that I had a problem in that my skirt was falling off. I had visions of having to hold my clothes on for the entire 13.1 miles until I had this brilliant thought. I had a couple extra safety pins and I just pinned my shirt to the skirt and solved the problem. Of course, this did complicate a later bathroom stop because I had forgotten I had pinned all my clothes together and trying to unpin everything in a porta-potty ...
Post race
Warm down:

Walked to meet-up point. I did have cramping in my calves on this walk and I think it was probably due to not enough electrolytes.

What limited your ability to perform faster:

My hip flexors. I had gotten some deep tissue massage work on them twice this week (Monday and Saturday) and am not sure whether the issue is more of that was needed or more training/fitness.

Event comments:

This is a very well managed race. However, this year they had wave starts instead of a mass start and I don't think that was an improvement.

I didn't go to the post-race festivities, so I can't comment.




Last updated: 2009-09-21 12:00 AM
Running
02:30:52 | 13.1 miles | 11m 31s  min/mile
Age Group: 252/605
Overall: 7642/11783
Performance: Good
Course:
Keeping cool Good Drinking Just right
Post race
Weight change: %
Overall: Good
Mental exertion [1-5] 4
Physical exertion [1-5] 5
Good race? Yes
Evaluation
Course challenge Just right
Organized? Yes
Events on-time? Yes
Lots of volunteers? Yes
Plenty of drinks? Yes
Post race activities:
Race evaluation [1-5] 5