Still haven't posted the report from the 1/2 from last month :-(
Short version: temve did amazing! And I was a terrific coach (if I do say so myself) and she got to the race trained and tapered and cut almost 10 minutes off her time! (yes, I'm taking partial credit for this, it helps to make up for my own race disappointment)
I lined up exactly where I was supposed to, near the back of the 1:50 to 2:00 corral. When I heard the women in front of me talking about hoping for a 2:15 race at best, I realized I was probably in trouble. But by then it was too late. I spent the first miserable mile and a half on a narrow, very congested trail alternately shuffling along getting more and more upset and sprinting like mad to get somewhere. Then the next 2 miles going about 15 seconds per mile faster than my intended pace to make up for it. By mile 9 I felt like utter crap and actually stopped at the water stop. Not just walked through it, but stopped outright and had a cup of tea (yes, tea. That's one thing the race folks do here that I love. Warm, very sweet tea at the water stops) So after I stopped for a cuppa, I still felt like crap, but I finished anyway and was more than 3 minutes off my PR and 4 off my hoped for time. So, not my best race which is probably why I didn't want to write the race report. I left the whole race out there in the first mile due to poor planning on my part (and the idiotic hope that German runners lie less than American ones about their times when self-seeding into corrals.)
After that training was going quite well until 2 weeks ago and I fell off my bike and have managed to injure my tailbone enough that training is either painful or not running. I don't want to be on the elliptical. Whine, whine, whine. I wanna go outside and run, whine, whine, whine. Ask again in a few weeks when I'm feeling better :-)
I'm not down with people placing themselves in corrals they have no business in >:[ - I always line up further back than I end up placing. Today I was all the way at the back, because at gun time, I was still in line for the loo, *g* (but there was lots of time with over 3000 runners).
I spent the first miserable mile and a half on a narrow, very congested trail alternately shuffling along getting more and more upset and sprinting like mad to get somewhere. Then the next 2 miles going about 15 seconds per mile faster than my intended pace to make up for it. :/
Not just walked through it, but stopped outright and had a cup of tea (yes, tea. That's one thing the race folks do here that I love. Warm, very sweet tea at the water stops) I'm sorry for the circumstances, but it sounds funny/actually kind of lovely that you stopped for a cup of tea (I get that it wasn't).
Ach, also sorry about the tailbone injury - that's one of the worst injuries I've experienced D:
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Short version:
I lined up exactly where I was supposed to, near the back of the 1:50 to 2:00 corral. When I heard the women in front of me talking about hoping for a 2:15 race at best, I realized I was probably in trouble. But by then it was too late. I spent the first miserable mile and a half on a narrow, very congested trail alternately shuffling along getting more and more upset and sprinting like mad to get somewhere. Then the next 2 miles going about 15 seconds per mile faster than my intended pace to make up for it. By mile 9 I felt like utter crap and actually stopped at the water stop. Not just walked through it, but stopped outright and had a cup of tea (yes, tea. That's one thing the race folks do here that I love. Warm, very sweet tea at the water stops) So after I stopped for a cuppa, I still felt like crap, but I finished anyway and was more than 3 minutes off my PR and 4 off my hoped for time. So, not my best race which is probably why I didn't want to write the race report. I left the whole race out there in the first mile due to poor planning on my part (and the idiotic hope that German runners lie less than American ones about their times when self-seeding into corrals.)
After that training was going quite well until 2 weeks ago and I fell off my bike and have managed to injure my tailbone enough that training is either painful or not running. I don't want to be on the elliptical. Whine, whine, whine. I wanna go outside and run, whine, whine, whine. Ask again in a few weeks when I'm feeling better :-)
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:/
I'm sorry for the circumstances, but it sounds funny/actually kind of lovely that you stopped for a cup of tea (I get that it wasn't).
Ach, also sorry about the tailbone injury - that's one of the worst injuries I've experienced D:
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Bummer about falling off your bike. I hate being injured! Heal up fast!