3M Half Marathon - Race Report

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My Report! 

Woke up at 4:00 a.m. and ate 2 toast bread and water got dressed and headed on to the race around 5:30 a.m. Agustin Contreras dropped me off at the start while he headed to the finish line to drop off his vehicle and make his way through the course with his bike.

Race was supposed to start at 6:45 a.m. it was 51 degrees with a 20 mph wind gust it had a wind chill of  46. The wind knocked down all the barricades on the course so it was unsafe to run it, the Austin Police department postponed the race 45 min to 1 hr, the barricades were picked up. I wore mizuno singlet, 2010 mizuno musha <-- I'm an idiot I ran in new shoes major no no!!!! I also tied them too tight that, my foot was hurting so much by the 10k mark. I was warned before the start not to wear them, but there I go and do things we all know we are bound to do. I feel that I was capable of going sub 1:08 with no wind, but it is what it is. Now I have to register for the L.A. Marathon on 3/21/2010  to go after my sub 2:30 goal.

 Here is the run through splits from my garmin.

Warm up for  2 miles at around 8 min pace

Mile 1  5:24 I hate the start of the race because I do the same thing on workouts I start off too slow! BTW the wind was horrible here, this mile is mostly up and down.

Mile 2 5:21 Starting to settle in, I felt kind of flat here. This mile was up and down as well and super windy.

Mile 3 5:13 It was sort of a drop and slight downhill.

Mile 4 5:10 Going down and wind at my back.

Mile 5 5:01 Continued going down wind at my back still

Mile 6 5:09 I believe we are still going down.

Mile 7 5:21 Foot is hurting and we are going up and down

Mile 8 5:21 Still rolling through the course

Mile 9 5:16 Going down hill I start to get back into a groove

Mile 10 This is the part everyone says to let go but it just doesn't happen the wind was tough.

Mile 11 5:21 Instead of enjoying the downhills from here to the finish I struggled, I could't go faster because of the wind.

Mile 12 5:18 Downhill but I can't go, I tried going but the wind was brutal even going downhill.

Mile 13 5:19  Got passed by Daniel Pinter of Colorado, he told me good job at the end, we ran from mile 11 to the finished together.

Cooldown: 3 miles

A special thanks to Agustin Contreras for hosting me at his home in Round Rock! :) THANK YOU AGUSTIN!  And a special thanks to PAUL PETERSEN for training advice!

THANKS TO all Fast Running Blog athletes that have commented and given me motivation ..

Total Time:

Benny Rodriguez #3861

Laredo, TX, USA

Age: 33 Gender: M

Distance	HALF MAR
Clock Time	1:09:19
Chip Time	1:09:18
Overall Place	3 / 3939
Gender Place	3 / 1664
Division Place	1 / 243
Age Grade	85.6%
First 10K Rank	6
First 10K Time	32:32
Final 6 9M Rank	2
Final 6 9M Time	1:09:18