This was a race I have ran a few times in the past and today I was looking at it as a long hard training day. The weather had been warm a day or two before but a change in weather was on the move. It was cooling down and winds were reported to be picking up. My Cousin Mary had been in town so we dropped her off at the airport prior to heading to the race, I wasn't sure what to wear so had a couple of options on what to wear, shorts or tights, and had a couple of tech shirts. I ended up going with the shorts and both tech shirts, one long sleeve and my one of my Maui 1/2 Mary shirts. I took the long sleeve one off about 5 miles into the run and it was perfect temp.
This course goes out away from the lake initially about 2 or 3 miles up hill then turns back to the tunnels, when you get to the tunnels it's a gravel road pretty much the balance of the race, which I like. There are two or three short steep hills around mile 9 near the second turn coming back to the tunnels, which really suck btw. the first 1/4 of the race I took at a pretty good effort then shortly after the turn I backed off a little until about mile 10 and picked it up just a bit and held that pace until the last 1/4 or 1/2 mile. The wind picked up shortly after the race started or maybe even before but it certainly picked up as the race progressed. I did a fair job of drafting when I could, @ 6'2" good drafting candidates were far and few between. A couple of notable drafting times a young girl probably just over 5ft got on my hip and stayed there for the longest time, it was nice to have a little company another time and I think she was still behind me a young lady I was drafting off of the best I could in some brutal wind, I looked behind me and there was a line of like 6 people tucked in behind me. Somewhere around mile 8 close to the dam I was running with another gentleman near my age and a gust of wind came up that almost brought both of us to a standstill.
All in all in was happy with my effort especially considering the conditions and very pleased with my time. I think it was like 1:54:xx 162 overall out of 6xx peeps and 6th out of my Age Group,,,,, you know the old fat man with grand kids age group. :)
It does make me curious as to what I could have done in Maui as that was an A race, well until I came down with the Flu the day before and an easier course. Oh well that's life and in the big scheme of things not a big deal.
It looks like the next race will be Leadman 125 Vegas, unless I come to my senses. Let's see Silverman, Ironman, is there a Copperman? All 1/2s or 70.3s btw.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Maui Ocean Front 1/2 Marathon ?!Race!? Report
Leading up to this race I did one of the best jobs I've done at hitting my workouts and especially my key workouts. I felt very confident that anything over 1:55 would be a disappointment.
We left Vegas on Thursday am before sunup and not only got on our preferred flights but got upgraded to 1st class on both of them. Pam & I arrived in Maui a little after noon, got checked into our hotel and had a nice little run along the ocean before dinner. Friday am we went for another short easy run I did a few short race pace efforts and then we loaded up for the day and went snorkeling. Had a nice dinner, went to bed about 8 or 9 Hawaii time and a couple of hours later the wheels started to fall off of my race. I woke up about 10 or 11 with a nasty stomach ache, which soon became apparent was some kind of 24hr flu bug. I spent the majority of the day Saturday in bed, I did make it out for a little sun, wind and beach time later in the day and felt like I was somewhat on the mend, I was pretty sure it was 24hr bug anyway. I didn't eat hardly a thing Saturday but did fall asleep about 5 pm and slept pretty much straight through until it was time to get up for the race on Sunday. I decided I'd give the race a shot, I paid for the damn finishers metal and was determined to get it.
Well race morning I did have a little bit of an appetite and a pretty big concern of being dehydrated. I had a protein smoothie and a couple of bottles of Gatorade before we left for the start. I had a protein bar before the race start or part of one anyway and headed to the start or well, the port a john. The time was short to the start the line was long but as weak as I felt I didn't see it as a big deal. I was one of the very last starters to cross the start line about 2 minutes after the gun. It was probably for the best as this way I didn't get caught up in the moment and go out to fast. I had a lot of bobbing and weaving to do the first mile or so then settled into a comfortable pace. I had a water bottle with me and finished that pretty much by the turn 24oz I also had a goo that I took between mile 5 & 6. I was starting to think that I could come close to a 2 hr race if things continued as they were. I picked up the pace a little at the turn and felt ok all things considered and passed quite a few people between the turn and mile 9 then all of a sudden I began to get some kind of pain in my abdominal area or cramping, whatever it was it hurt like hell, so I backed off a little and a little more and the pain continued until I was walking, now a lot of the folks I had passed began to pass back, just not much I could do about it at this point. I ended up run walking the last 3 miles, I was just thankful that I finished. We didn't hang around for long.
I came in 12th out of 20 in my age group with a time of 2:18:48 Gun time and 2:16:59 Chip Time Results
** Mile * * * Pace * * *Avg HR
1. ** 1.05 * * 09:08 * * 136
2. ** 1.09 * * 08:43 * * 145
3. ** 0.99 * * 09:05 * * 145
4. ** 1.06 * * 08:59 * * 144
5. ** 1.04 * * 08:59 * * 147
6. ** 1.03 * * 08:54 * * 148
7. ** 1.14 * * 08:50 * * 152
8. ** 1.03 * * 08:45 * * 156
9. ** 1.05 * * 09:15 * * 154
10. * 1.03 * * 12:47 * * 143
11. * 0.92 * * 14:27 * * 133
12. * 1.07 * * 13:00 * * 134
13. * 1.01 * * 12:20 * * 137
My original plan was to warm up for a mile and a half or so before the race and go out the first mile at about a 9 min pace or just under and pick it up to between an 8:40/:30 to see how it went and then go from there, hopefully to get the average as close to 8 as I could. I did have to make one port o let stop at about mile 10, I'm officially calling this a Shitty Race!!!!! :)
What lingering affects from that bug were either gone or suppressed for the balance of our stay in Maui and we had a great time!!
We left Vegas on Thursday am before sunup and not only got on our preferred flights but got upgraded to 1st class on both of them. Pam & I arrived in Maui a little after noon, got checked into our hotel and had a nice little run along the ocean before dinner. Friday am we went for another short easy run I did a few short race pace efforts and then we loaded up for the day and went snorkeling. Had a nice dinner, went to bed about 8 or 9 Hawaii time and a couple of hours later the wheels started to fall off of my race. I woke up about 10 or 11 with a nasty stomach ache, which soon became apparent was some kind of 24hr flu bug. I spent the majority of the day Saturday in bed, I did make it out for a little sun, wind and beach time later in the day and felt like I was somewhat on the mend, I was pretty sure it was 24hr bug anyway. I didn't eat hardly a thing Saturday but did fall asleep about 5 pm and slept pretty much straight through until it was time to get up for the race on Sunday. I decided I'd give the race a shot, I paid for the damn finishers metal and was determined to get it.
Well race morning I did have a little bit of an appetite and a pretty big concern of being dehydrated. I had a protein smoothie and a couple of bottles of Gatorade before we left for the start. I had a protein bar before the race start or part of one anyway and headed to the start or well, the port a john. The time was short to the start the line was long but as weak as I felt I didn't see it as a big deal. I was one of the very last starters to cross the start line about 2 minutes after the gun. It was probably for the best as this way I didn't get caught up in the moment and go out to fast. I had a lot of bobbing and weaving to do the first mile or so then settled into a comfortable pace. I had a water bottle with me and finished that pretty much by the turn 24oz I also had a goo that I took between mile 5 & 6. I was starting to think that I could come close to a 2 hr race if things continued as they were. I picked up the pace a little at the turn and felt ok all things considered and passed quite a few people between the turn and mile 9 then all of a sudden I began to get some kind of pain in my abdominal area or cramping, whatever it was it hurt like hell, so I backed off a little and a little more and the pain continued until I was walking, now a lot of the folks I had passed began to pass back, just not much I could do about it at this point. I ended up run walking the last 3 miles, I was just thankful that I finished. We didn't hang around for long.
I came in 12th out of 20 in my age group with a time of 2:18:48 Gun time and 2:16:59 Chip Time Results
** Mile * * * Pace * * *Avg HR
1. ** 1.05 * * 09:08 * * 136
2. ** 1.09 * * 08:43 * * 145
3. ** 0.99 * * 09:05 * * 145
4. ** 1.06 * * 08:59 * * 144
5. ** 1.04 * * 08:59 * * 147
6. ** 1.03 * * 08:54 * * 148
7. ** 1.14 * * 08:50 * * 152
8. ** 1.03 * * 08:45 * * 156
9. ** 1.05 * * 09:15 * * 154
10. * 1.03 * * 12:47 * * 143
11. * 0.92 * * 14:27 * * 133
12. * 1.07 * * 13:00 * * 134
13. * 1.01 * * 12:20 * * 137
My original plan was to warm up for a mile and a half or so before the race and go out the first mile at about a 9 min pace or just under and pick it up to between an 8:40/:30 to see how it went and then go from there, hopefully to get the average as close to 8 as I could. I did have to make one port o let stop at about mile 10, I'm officially calling this a Shitty Race!!!!! :)
What lingering affects from that bug were either gone or suppressed for the balance of our stay in Maui and we had a great time!!
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