{"id":512,"date":"2010-10-17T21:01:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T01:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/?p=512"},"modified":"2010-10-17T21:05:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T01:05:37","slug":"encouraging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/10\/17\/encouraging\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ran the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acmarathon.org\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic City Half-Marathon<\/a> in 1:32:43 (7:05s).  I came in 54th place overall, 39th place of 408 males, and 10th place of 119 people in my age group!  10th place! Woo-hoo!  I ran the race with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethcorkum\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Corkum<\/a>, who invited me to the race.  She did impressively herself, running the 13.1 miles in 1:39:39 (a PR for her!), equating to 7:37s.  She came in 95th place, 28th place of 492 females, and 10th place of 139 people in her age group!<\/p>\n<p>We both were 10th place in our respective age groups!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lin-mark.com\/results\/achalf2010.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Here are the overall Half-Marathon results.<\/a>  And here are the Garmin deets from my race:<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial Race Results:<br \/>\n<iframe width='465' height='548' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/connect.garmin.com:80\/activity\/embed\/53427222'><\/iframe><br \/>\nFor this race, the starting temperature was around 50 degrees with mostly clear blue skies.  It really was a fantastic weather to start in.  My first mile on the Boardwalk was a swift and painless 6:28.  From there, I was slower in my miles but not very slow.  According to Garmin I did 7:04s and a lot of my times hovered below 7:04 through 8 miles.  After then I started to lose a little steam, heading back on the Boardwalk but for a monotonously long distance (well, 3 miles), slowing to hover around 7:15s.  Still not bad, but I had a 2x Caffeine Tangerine PowerGel around Mile 10 or so to give me some oomph.<\/p>\n<p>As I took the turnaround just around 11.05 miles and headed back, I saw Elizabeth and put out my hand to high-five her and give her a cheer of support.  Yea!  My run to the finish was supposed to be the steepest part of the run, but I didn&#8217;t notice any kind of incline.  I was pretty taxed though, and while I saw the finish from quite a ways away, I didn&#8217;t muster up that much of a finishing sprint.  I did get a little sprint on &#8230; well, maybe just a little of my &#8220;showy&#8221; robot arms.<\/p>\n<p>How did my body do?  No pains to report!  I took an ArginMax, quercetine, and ibuprofen, and a green tea complex was also in me.  I also had one of the aforementioned PowerGels about an hour before the race as food.  About the worst injury I got was <em>chapped lips<\/em> from windburn&#8211;the course was generally windy, though the winds were calm at times.  My calves are pretty sore, though, and it&#8217;s a little tough getting up from a seated position.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m pretty encouraged by this finish time.  It&#8217;s not a personal record, though it is 7:05s.  7:05s is somewhere around where I want to be for marathon pace.  While I wouldn&#8217;t be able to carry that speed today over 26.2 miles, I&#8217;m positioned in a place to know how I can perform in race conditions up to the distance of 13.1 miles.<\/p>\n<p>It was a great trip!  Thanks for inviting me, Elizabeth! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I ran the Atlantic City Half-Marathon in 1:32:43 (7:05s). I came in 54th place overall, 39th place of 408 males, and 10th place of 119 people in my age group! 10th place! Woo-hoo! I ran the race with Elizabeth Corkum, who invited me to the race. She did impressively herself, running the 13.1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/2010\/10\/17\/encouraging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Encouraging!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathons","category-races"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benhauck.com\/running\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}