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Dorchester YMCA Crab Run - RunHalf Marathon
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Comments: YAY What would you do differently?: Nothing  Post race
Warm down: went into the gym to warm up (as soon as I finished I was sweaty and hot... about 2 minutes later my body temp dropped and I was shivering). I got half a doughnut (the spread was amazing but I couldn't really stomach anything). I stretched and waited for deb to finish. She did and then we waited for the finish times to post. Then I got more (a lot more) food ... homemade cupcakes, trail mix, cookie, brownie, yum. Unfortunately, the AGs only rolled one deep, and the winner of my AG ran a 1:32:21 so yeah, not really that close (also jeez that's fast!). I finished THIRD in my AG so award or no award, that's pretty awesome. and also, a PR. second one in three weeks. sweet. we back over the bridge(s), back home, to a napping H and a gardening James. What limited your ability to perform faster: nothing Event comments: Great small town race, very friendly, well organized. Profile Album Last updated: 2013-02-15 12:00 AM
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Dorchester Family YMCA
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Overall Rank = 42/224
Age Group = F30-34
Age Group Rank = 3/20
from irontrish.blogspot.com:
This race kind of sneaked up on me. B&A half was only three weeks before this race, and I spent the first week post race sick, the second week post race trying to keep up with my workouts but not really doing so because I was still recovering from the previous week's sickness, and the third week tapering for this race.
Let's just say I didn't get a lot of quality runs in between races.
Friday - the day before the race - I was in court. Fortunately, it was a quick day so I was able to come home a little early to pack and get my shit together before my iron buddy Deb picked me up. We drove to the eastern shore (hitting traffic, non beach weekend, it's just a bridge people, wtf) and arrived around 6.
Packet pick up was at the Y (a super nice Y) and OMG this is the shirt:
a bunch of little crabs and a bigger crab? YES PLEASE.
The Italian restaurant Deb eats at (used to eat at) apparently closed, so we followed her GPS to a random Italian place. It smelled like plastic fruit but my pizza was really good so it evened out. then to our Walgreens for toothbrushes, toothpaste, and clearance easter candy (chocolate covered marshmallow for $.025? awesomesauce), hotel, a couple episodes of TLC's "Four Weddings" (and my easter candy) and then to sleep.
We were up around 6:00 AM (no parade at 1:30 AM) and drove to the start.
I really wasn't sure how I'd race. I felt great for B&A --- solid training, good taper, but with the sickness, recovery, and taper (all in a three week period) I didn't have a feeling for my race fitness. My goal was to PR - I mean, that's almost always my goal - but I told myself that if I stayed under/ around 1:48 I'd call it a successful day.
I also made the mistake of looking at last year's result --- if I ran this race the in same time I ran B&A, and the same field showed up, and those people ran the same race - I'd place first (first!) in my AG. I should stop doing this.
The race is (basically) the run portion of the Eagleman HIM course only unlike EM, it's not 100 * and in the middle of the day, so hooray for that.
Pre race was uneventful - bathroom a couple of times, hung out in the gym, and then finally - go time!