At the Finish Line
The Pacific Shoreline Half Marathon marked the end of the third phase of my running adventure. I had started running consistently last July, struggling to run a few miles at over 9 min/mile pace, trained for a 10k in November running it in just under 47 minutes, and then went right into training for the half marathon. After the 10k I plugged my time in the various predictors out there which indicated my expected half marathon time would be around 1:43. This sounded very ambitious to me but I used that time to guide me to plug into the training plan for my tempo and interval paces. Training went ok but not great. I did not get all the mileage in as a lot of times I didn't get in one of the general runs in for the week and didn't get the mid plan races in but I did do the prescribed interval, tempo, and long runs. The toughest workout for me was a 4 mile run at half marathon pace followed by a 800 recovery, a 800 at 10k pace followed by a 400 recovery, and then 2 more miles at half marathon pace. The first time I tried it I was done after the 4 mile stint but the following week (the plan had repeat weeks) I did complete it. This was 8 days before the race. I had also done the last 3 of an 11 mile long run in under 24 minutes and the last mile of a 12 mile long run in under 7 minutes (thank Jesse of the 6:42's for that) so overall I felt I was ready though worried a little about losing about 6 miles per week off of the plan. I was also becoming a little burned out by the running. I think this was due to being in a dedicated training plan since September for the 10k where it was mapped out what I had to run each day. I didn't have the flexibility of doing a spin class instead of a run or to lift weights as it took all my efforts to find time just to get the run in. (let alone blog about it....) I told myself that after this race I would take a break to reward myself.
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2/4/2007 Huntington Beach CA
Pacific Shoreline Marathon - Half Marathon
Bib: 2177
Name: Jeff Emenaker
Gender: M
Age: 40
Hometown: Orange CA
Place Overall: 647 out of 7386
Men: 508 out of 3229
M 40-44: 85 out of 500
AgeGrade: 59.37% Place: 1191
FINISH: 1:42:48 pace: 7:51
5.2 Mile: 41:24 pace: 7:58
9.4 Mile: 1:13:14 pace: 7:48
Chip Time: 1:42:48
Gun Time: 2:03:19
Splits:
Mile 1: 8:25
Mile 2: 7:54 16:19
Mile 3: 7:55 24:14
Mile 4 7:55 32:09
Mile 5 7:52 40:01
Mile 6 7:52 47:53
Mile 7 7:45 55:38
Mile 8 7:46 1:03:24
Mile 9 7:50 1:11:14
Mile 10 7:37 1:18:51
Mile 11 7:49 1:26:40
Mile 12 7:48 1:34:28
Mile 13.1 8:23 1:42:51
Race report to follow soon
Official Time: 10k - 46:55
Place Overall - 491 out of 3584
Men 387 out of 1831
M 40-44 62 out of 285
Age Grade 59.15% Place 793
Finish 46:55 Pace 7:33
5k 23:45 Pace 7:39
Chip time 46:55
Gun Time 48:17
Splits (unofficial off my watch)
(7:38,7:45,7:20,7:30,7:47,7:24,1:31)
The Dana Point Turkey Trot is one of the bigger races in Southern California. The 10k had over 3500 runners and there was also a masters 5k and open 5k that followed. The result was a lot of people coming to an area that is not made for it. The 10k started at 7am and I got there shortly after 6. Parking wasn't too difficult though if I had gotten there later it would have been tough. I felt sorry for those coming later just to run the 5k. I made my way to the race area, jogged for about a mile to warmup then sought out a place at the start.
The race started (about 15 minutes late which was a minor thing for me but I can't imagine the elites and faster runners were too happy about as I'm sure their warmups are calibrated down to the minute) and over a minute later I got to the start line.