Post by: glwestcott on July 27, 2025, 04:24:29 PM
Post by: Fast Eddie on July 27, 2025, 09:17:19 PM
Race start at 7:30am, but some early starters in the half and full had already set out. A thunderstorm blew through just before race start, but fortunately things basically cleared and the race was only delayed by a minute. Some light showers mid race for about 45 minutes, otherwise mainly overcast throughout the race, but with 95-100% humidity. Mid seventy temps, but feeling in the eighties. But for late July, pretty good. I was sweat drenched head to toe by the first 10K.
Went in undertrained due to heat waves that cut my main last long run 3 weeks out from 32-35K to only 26.5K. I would pay for the lack of endurance on the final inbound loop. First out and back went well, with a 2:01:06 half split. Things fell apart at the 31K mark. Downed a gel, two water and two Gatorades at the water station as twitches of cramping started to rear its ugly head. Legs tighten up as well, as pace slowed eventually into survival shuffle, then run/walk.
Second half split 2:27:45. Total time 4:28:51, a personal worst in the marathon. Still finished 1st in my AG 60-69 (okay there were only three other geezers in my AG and one of them started early and wasn't eligible for awards).
Post by: glwestcott on July 27, 2025, 09:23:51 PM
Post by: kawasa on July 28, 2025, 10:10:19 PM
I keep thinking I can't pick a hotter time to run then I do! It was about 85°F and super humid and I did 2 mile warm up, 4 hill sprints at about 85%, then a 2 mile warm down.
Post by: DrT(weekendwrAcur) on July 31, 2025, 06:29:44 PM
Then I remembered my moose story from a couple weeks ago. We were course marshaling a bike race on the trails up in the Colorado mountains. My buddy yells “get out of the way— Moose!!!” and we did get out of the way, just in time, to avoid the Bull Moose running downhill full speed ON THE TRAIL directly at us.
By quickly vacating our marshal positions, luckily, the moose “missed” his turn and continued down one direction away from the race course. And missed us hiding in the trees. About five bike racers timidly followed… we assured that we’d bravely removed the moose from the course for them, and all breathed a sigh of relief.
I did not log my 25meter sprint on here that day, it was otherwise mostly a “bike and stand around” day ;)
(p.s. my Sunday this week (27th, not 22nd) was 9k in 27*C unseasonably cool overcast conditions, warming up by the finish to seasonably warm and humid. Complicated by it being an easy group run until the last 2k when it wasn’t and I decided to play see how many I can chase down at the end…)