I was originally registered to run the full marathon along with Jenny. Neither of us prepared much, me not at all, so we both decided to join Courtney in the half marathon. The non-racing crew for the race consisted of Roger (logistics and pack mule) and Kyle (team photographer). The race starts at 8:30AM. We were rolling by 6:45AM for the 20 minute drive to the race start in Long Branch. There with plenty of time to kill we walked around and relaxed in Pier Village watching dogs and people.
The race is a single loop and dead flat. There are 2 bridges to run over which are the only time you see an elevation change. Jen and I ran together for the first coupe miles, the game plan was to hold an even 10min pace. After 2 or 3 miles Jen was feeling good so she took up the pace and dropped me. Running by myself now I weaved along the race route through the neighborhoods of Long Branch, NJ. The weather was nice, reaching the low 70's in the race. I had no complaints. I didn't feel good, I didn't feel bad. It was just another grin-n-bear-it race I had to finish being completely untrained. To that end, I held a precision 10 minute pace the entire race and finished in exactly 2:10:41. OK, so that's actually a 9:59 pace…I'll have to adjust my metronome.
Jenny went on to finish in 2:02:15 (9:19 pace) and Courtney came in at 3:02:47 (13:57 pace). It was a lot of fun having everyone over for company, going out to dinner, getting ice cream, and showing off my killer 3D TV. It was a rockin weekend. Rock on peeps. Out!
1 comments:
thanks for hosting us. i really enjoyed this race and think that we could have a fun time actually racing it if we train next year!!!
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