Time: 7:30am
Where: Seattle
Workout: 13.1 Miles, my friends!
Notes and observations: I will probably write something longer about this later on, but if I don’t … this race was really great. I had a great training plan and felt really good when I finished Some memorable sights:
- Watching two blind runners and their guides
- Cheering on the marathon leader as he smoked us around mile 10
- The number of weirdos texting and taking pics of themselves while running. I was like, really? put the friggin phone down!
- Just the amount of people. like 22,000 of them. just wow.
- The Mariners employees who held huge pictures of Ichiro & Felix outside of Safeco Field
- While on the viaduct, I saw a ferris wheel on one of the piers. When did Seattle get a Ferris Wheel?
In all, a really great run and a nice course. A few unexpected hills (specifically one that popped up as you turned a corner in mile 5. But I never stopped. Such a difference over the last time I did the half-marathon 8 years ago.
My stats:
- Overall: 3798 out of 14089
- Division: 333 out of 1618
- Gender: 1728 out of 9470
- 5K:
- 10 Km – 59:20
- 10 Mi – 1:35:38
- Pace – 9:35
- Chip Time – 02:05:36
- Clock Time – 02:38:14
Do you see that 9:35. I surpassed my goal of a 10:00 and even beat my reforecasted goal of 9:40. Sweet.
So. Now what’s coming up next? A bit of a breather from the running (though I plan to continue running, not as much as I had been while training for this.). I’m thinking of paying attention to my neglected bike for a few months while the weather is nice. I need to focus a bit more on the strength training, which sadly was dropped as my mileage increased. That is all.
Music: In addition to the plethora of local garage bands playing the route, Foo Fighters, of course. Somehow all of my favorite songs were shuffled to the first few miles of the race. It was nice to have that in my back pocket, figuratively and literally.