Official Race Results Confirm New PR
So the official race results for my half-marathon have been posted on the Internet. I finished the race in 1:41:44, a new personal record, my old record being 1:48:12. I placed 122/294 overall, and 14/35 for my age group (M45). Out of the eight runners from my running group I placed 3rd, the two in front of me finishing in 1:28:30 and 1:33:10!
I found the following pictures of the start and finish of the race:
The winner of the race finished in 1:12:33, a young man (1979) out of Karlsruhe. The winning lady finished in 1:33:33, and hey listen up ladies, she was born in 1954! The second place woman, with a time of 1:34:28, was born in 1961. In fact the first five women HM finishers were all over 45 years old. Who said you slow down as you get older!
I am obviously pleased with setting a new personal record, I’m just amazed that I made such an improvement. I think a lot of it has to do with my running club. The ones I run with regularly kept telling me that I should be able to run a faster half, I guess I started believing them.
My legs are tired this morning, which is no surprise, but no aches or pains, pulled muscles or anything like that. I want to do a 5-mile recovery run this evening to loosen up the muscles. For the rest of the week I will continue my tapering with a 11K/6.8M run with my running club on Wednesday and probably a 1½ hour run on Saturday. I’ll fill in a couple of the days with some swimming and bike riding, but nothing excessive – I want to be in good shape for my marathon on Sept. 10th.
Comments
Awesome - what a huge time improvement. I'm sure that's a big confidence booster going into the marathon!
Posted by: neca | August 28, 2006 1:25 PM
Excellent job, that equates to a great pace and an impressive improvement!
Best of luck on your marathon!
Posted by: Heath | August 28, 2006 6:59 PM
Your fabulous success has me pumped for my 20K on Monday. I will think of your determination as I seek my own PR.
Well done Jack!
Posted by: Dianna | August 28, 2006 8:20 PM
Wow, told ya! A new PR! Congrats big time:)
Posted by: olga | August 28, 2006 9:13 PM
Congratulations Jack! Some ultra-runners have a theory that the best way to train for a marathon is to run a 100 miler a month before. I think the same theory may apply to your half-marathon improvement. You've been training hard and deserve a great race like this and I am sure there will be more to come.
Posted by: Rob | August 28, 2006 10:47 PM
Congratulations Jack! What an amazing PR
Posted by: ali | August 29, 2006 12:47 AM
cool, great improvement jack. well done!
Posted by: brent | August 29, 2006 3:44 AM
Congrats on your PR! That's an awesome improvement!
Posted by: Sarah | August 29, 2006 5:22 AM
Sorry, I'm a bit late.
I told you just last week that your potential half-marathon PR is a lot better than the 1:48 you had until last week, didn't I? Smashing race, Jack. I'd be hard-pressed to better that.
Posted by: Thomas | August 29, 2006 9:37 PM
Way to go!!! That's huge improvment on your old PR and a GREAT half time!
Posted by: Rae | September 3, 2006 2:19 PM