Earned my #HalfMarathon PR today on the beautiful #SammamishRiverTrail (SRT): time 1:48:25 pace 8'16”/mile according to #Strava. My watch again generously claims time was 1:42:49. I picked Strava to be the record.
Temp feels like 50F, dew point 47F, cloudy w/ breeze 3.2mph SW. In other words, perfect weather to get PR!
I've been training to hit 1:25 since my half marathon at St. George last October. My PR is 1:29.
Unfortunately, the training hasn't gone to plan. Despite running hills, threshold intervals, long tempos, and lots of slow easy runs, the best I can probably hope for is 1:28.
However, this course is more difficult having about 1/3 the elevation drop of St. George and some rolling hills. 1:28 would mean a significant fitness improvement.
@WTL@recollir I think I have only myslef to blame: 10k = 6.21317 miles, and I stopped the watch at 6.20, and that’s what my watch recorded, but #Strava reported 6.21 (?), and neither recognized it’s a 10K run…
More bizarre to me is how Strava interprets the elevation gain: see below from my recent #halfMarathon PR run. The route is pretty flat, so my #AppleWatch is definitely the correct one. Funny thing is this doesn't happen every time. Any idea?
A study in gray, along a regular #halfmarathon route nearby.
I don't mind the weather so much, but it does get a bit tiresome in late March & early April.
Pretty big #fitness milestone! 100lbs down since August of last year
Only a couple pounds away from my goal weight, then I'm going to start slowly ramping up my calories again and start focusing on #strengthtraining and training for a #halfmarathon this Fall!
Finished my Half-Marathon race today in a better-than-expected time of about 2h25m. Was able to keep a pretty consistent pace, until the last mile where I ran the fastest mile of the whole event!
(Mile 12 was slow because I had to stop and fix the cushioning in my shoe.)
Bon, comme on dit : ça, c’est fait !
L’objectif était de claquer un #SemiMarathon en moins de 105 minutes. On verra s’il est possible de passer sous les 100 la prochaine fois. Enfin dans un mois hein parce que qu’est-ce qu’on s’emmerde sur route… #running#HalfMarathon
My first #marathon#race, done! Official result was 3:51:39.8, pace 8'50"/mile. I was ranked overall 50/167, in males 40/102, or in my age group 5/9. This is slightly slower than my PR in practice (3:50:33, pace 8'48”).
But the official time didn't account for the three times I was lost (!) and had to either retract or asked people (I was not the only one). According to my watch I earned PR on marathon: 3:44:58, pace 8’35”, and #halfMarathon: 1:45:19, pace 8’02”. (1/2)
5th time is the charm: I finally cracked my 1st sub-4h #marathon today! Moving time was 3:50:33, pace 8’48”/mile. For each half I was actually faster than my best official #halfMarathon PR (1:55:16 < 1:56)!
Weather was typical #Seattle: nagging drizzle. Temperature feels like 40F (4.4C) w/ wind 7 mph (S). Thanks to my son on the bike (he came even when losing 1 hour sleep to #DST change), we performed no-stopping fueling twice, and I only brought two gel packs on me w/o phone.
Cambridge #HalfMarathon day. Time 3:01:37 - so v. similar to last year - running pace almost identical in fact as there were a couple of stops (Trinity’s gravel path was not my friend). One thing about the wave starts is how the majority of my club have finished when I was at ~5 km 🙃. Will be sore in training this week, then will need to prepare for a few longer practice runs on the run up to the #LondonMarathon. Had lots of positive comments on my cow leggings! #running#UkRunChat#TeamNHRR
It was a really brutal race for me. I had a lot of new experiences today, but thankfully, getting swept at a race and taking a DNF (did not finish) was not one of them. I'll do a more complete write-up later this week, but for now, I did finish the half marathon and so earned both a #HalfMarathon and #DumboDoubleDare medal. 1/2
Didn’t have a lot of expectations around the Cadbury Half Marathon since I went into it without any specific training. Would have been stoked with any time under 2 hours but the course was a little long. Ended up doing 22.2km (instead of 21.2) in 1:59:01. I’m counting that as a big win! #SlowBoizRunClub#running#HalfMarathon