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March 27, 2011

Boulder Spring Half Marathon Race Report

I had a great race, third half marathon in 2:10:30, over 13 minutes faster than the one I ran last year for a PR. I am surprised that I feel as good as I do because I didn’t execute the race well at all. I will take it as lessons learned and hope to do better at my full marathon in May. As always I laid out my gear the night before, the forecast called for high 3os to low 40s with a chance of rain or snow. I decided to wear my Mizuno tights (LOVE these), REI long sleeved tech shirt, Adidas running jacket and RMTC visor.I packed gloved and a headband but chose not to wear them. I also packed two packets of sharkies and one GU, this was a mistake but more on that later. This morning we woke up at 4:30, I was so tired and didn’t want to get out of bed. The only thing motivating me to move was the promise of lots of hot coffee. I stumbled around, drank two buckets of coffee then Bailey and Winston helped my get ready.I ate a cliff bar and a banana before leaving the house, we got to Boulder Reservoir by 7am for a 8am start time. We took our time visiting the bathrooms, warming up and finally lined up at 7:55 and waited…..20 minutes. This is my only complaint about this race, I have no idea why we started 15 minutes late. This was the best supported race I have ever ran there were aid stations everywhere, on both sides of the street. Each station had water, gatorade, GU gels, bananas and tons of friendly volunteers. There were also lots of volunteers with radios to help any athletes that needed it. Most of the race was on dirt country roads, with a few miles on paved roads. The start was pretty congested and didn’t open up until about three quarters of a mile in. Here are our splits:

Mile 1: 10:07 Caught behind a bunch of people

Mile 2: 9:40 Skipped water station, bad idea…

Mile 3: 10:06

Mile 4: 10:11 started to feel hungry because I didn’t take a gel before starting, what was I thinking? but I decided to wait to take my gel, again, what was I thinking, the aid stations had GUs I could have gotten more.

Mile 5: 10:27 feeling tired, low blood sugar

Mile 6: 10:11

Mile 7: 10:42 finally took my gel and drank more water

Mile 8: 9:25 feeling much better

Mile 9: 9:17

Mile 10: 9:45 starting to feel tired and hungry again, did I take a gel? No…brilliant.

Mile 11: 9:42

Mile 12 and .1: 10:00ish Cory forgot to hit his watch right when we crossed the line Official time 2:09:30 with 9:53 minute miles. I am happy with this overall time but wonder what time I could have ran if I had not lost my mind during the race. I know better than to make all these mistakes. I blame it on getting 2 hours of sleep on Friday night and just being too tired to think straight. I am getting closer to my sub two hour goal, maybe this summer or fall?? =)Happy to be done, we both really like the medals.We hung around for a while after the race and even got massages. Before leaving I made friends with Kona, a really sweet Sheep Dog. Headed home for ice baths, showers, recovery beer and relaxing. It’s been a good day.

Posted by bethcurtis 7 Comments
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  1. Julie says

    March 28, 2011 at 2:18 am

    Congrats on a great race!

    I love bling too. 🙂

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  2. Julie says

    March 28, 2011 at 2:37 am

    Great job on your time!! I do stuff like that during races, too. I know I should eat and then I put it off and then I regret it – or I know I shouldn’t be drinking so much and I keep drinking…and then I REALLY regret it when I get all sloshy. It’s a science for sure…and everyone’s different.

    Recovery beers…mmmmmmm good!

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  3. Jess @ Blonde Ponytail says

    March 28, 2011 at 3:02 am

    CONGRATS BETH!! I love your tights too–you look great! Sounds like you had a fabulous time and race. Once you get your fueling on par, it sounds like you are setting yourself up for even better races!

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  4. Harlow B says

    March 28, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    It’s neat how you break down each mile and what you did/didn’t do so that you can go back and make improvements. Good luck on your full in May,

    I’m running my first full in May (and a half in April) so I’ve begun reading (on top of training) a lot of running blogs to learn the ropes!

    ~ Harlow

    liking the recovery beer idea!

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  5. Aimee says

    March 28, 2011 at 10:41 pm

    Woohoo! Congrats on your race! You did awesome!

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  6. chris mcpeake says

    March 29, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    congrats on a great race!!

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  7. Colleen says

    March 30, 2011 at 11:00 pm

    Congrats on a great race! 🙂 I think you’ll hit that sub 2 before you know it!

    Reply

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