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Toledo Glass City Half Marathon

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Location:

Lake Orion,MI,

Member Since:

Dec 28, 2011

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

PRs

16:52 Phillies Charities 5k (2016)

35:52 Beach to Beacon 10k (2015)

58:10 Broad Street 10 Mile (2016)

1:16:02 Philadelphia Rock and Roll Half Marathon (2015)

2:46:54 Philadelphia Marathon (2015)

Personal:

I live in Michigan with my wife, Megan, and our boys, Charlie and Sawyer. I started running in September 2010.

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Miles:This week: 17.80 Month: 188.40 Year: 510.50
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Race: Toledo Glass City Half Marathon (13.109 Miles) 01:20:47, Place overall: 11, Place in age division: 1
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
4.500.0013.100.0017.60

AM: Glass City Half Marathon in 1:20:47

This was my first race since Broad Street last year on May 1. Training has been up and down since then and I had two fairly serious lows in training with a decent chunk of time off last summer. I was fairly pleased that I was able to run the time I did as I haven't run too many miles under 6:30 pace in the last 12-16 weeks.

The night before I went to bed around 10:15 as I was falling asleep at dinner. I'm beyond overtired. I woke up not wanting to get out of bed, but it was an hour later than I have been getting up. We stayed with Megan's uncle who lives a half mile from the start line. I warmed up a 1.5 miles, which wasn't quite enough time but I didn't leave myself enough time. I changed into my flats for the first time in almost 365 days.

I decided to start at about 6:30 pace and work my way down. The first few miles I felt pretty rusty, the effort harder than I wanted in my legs but with my breathing comfortable. After two miles I wasn't really feeling it, but I think I was almost actually at 3 miles and didn't realize it. I started cranking down the pace and by miles 4-5 I was feeling decent but wasn't sure how my legs would work or if they would just die.

I went from feeling like I didn't want to run to letting the miles roll by. I recognized many of the places we ran through as I am somewhat familiar with the area. I started passing quite a few people.I knew I had to pick it up the final 5k, but I still wasn't sure what my legs would do. By mile 12 I knew I had a good bit left. I estimate that I was only down to half marathon effort after 4-5 miles. By mile 12.5 I was fully down to end-of race effort.

I ran by the University and started to dig in. I made the turn into the University running 5:39 for the last mile and getting some support from a small but helpful crowd. The chute was clogged by two race volunteers, with whom I was not very pleased (some other lack of directions at a few points in the race make me not want to run the full marathon here. See also Matt from the blog's race report from 2 years ago). I could see the final turf stretch and was somewhat surprised to see 1:20 on the clock and kicked it in, pleased to come under 1:21. I am not sure if I would have raced differently I could have come under 1:20 or not. Slowest half in 4 years, but I'm not upset about that.

I cooled down barefoot on the turf for 3 miles waiting for Megan who ran 1:54:18.

Splits: 6:26, 6:24, 6:25, 6:14, 6:11, 6:01, 6:07, 6:08, 6:10, 6:09, 6:00, 6:10, 5:39, 42.2

PM: I did a 5k walk shakeout and brought some wine with me :-)

Nike Zoom Streak LT2 White/Orange Miles: 13.10Saucony ISO Triumph 2 Miles: 1.50
Weight: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 18:08:00 from 71.56.28.146

nice. glad to see you get a race in with your busy schedule. "i changed into my flats for the first time in almost 365 days" -- it's amazing how fast the time goes by. it doesn't seem like that long ago, but i think back and i haven't run a 5k in over a year. geez.

anyway, wine walk. i approve. mimosa strolls are also pretty good, or just straight everclear disguised as bottled water.

[joke]

!

From Rob Murphy on Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 18:19:54 from 67.166.78.47

Great to see you back at it Jason. Sounds like a perfect rust buster race.

From jtshad on Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:08:45 from 141.221.191.225

Nicely done. Good approach to this race and getting things flowing again. Don't dwell on "what could have been" but instead revel in a successful effort. With all you have going on, getting your mojo back is really great.

From Mike M on Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:11:34 from 168.213.5.107

Oh man, that's a heck of a negative split! Nice work, especially given the tough training recently.

From Bret on Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:17:29 from 216.234.133.229

Nice effort Jason! Good report too - sounds like you warmed right into feeling pretty solid. Good time for your first race in a year. Congrats.

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