kinthelt (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kinthelt) wrote,@ 2009-06-22 09:12:00 |
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Manitoba Marathon
Ran & finished the Manitoba Marathon yesterday. It was a hot race. At 7am, the temperature was 23 degrees Celsius, and it just got hotter from there. The official temperature hit 29 degrees, but when you're on the pavement it feels much hotter.
Needless to say, I don't think anybody got a personal best time during the race. I was about 10 minutes slower than I was last year. But despite my worse time, I moved up 100 places overall. So maybe all my training wasn't wasted. Kind of disappointing that I could not run the 4 hour race I was gearing up for. But the important thing was that I finished. Many people didn't. I did not see a single idle EMS crew.
I supposed I have to be satisfied that I survived the race; simply finishing it, rather than attaining a specific time.
Now I'm going to be have to enter another marathon later in the year to make my training pay off. :)
Ran & finished the Manitoba Marathon yesterday. It was a hot race. At 7am, the temperature was 23 degrees Celsius, and it just got hotter from there. The official temperature hit 29 degrees, but when you're on the pavement it feels much hotter.
Needless to say, I don't think anybody got a personal best time during the race. I was about 10 minutes slower than I was last year. But despite my worse time, I moved up 100 places overall. So maybe all my training wasn't wasted. Kind of disappointing that I could not run the 4 hour race I was gearing up for. But the important thing was that I finished. Many people didn't. I did not see a single idle EMS crew.
I supposed I have to be satisfied that I survived the race; simply finishing it, rather than attaining a specific time.
Now I'm going to be have to enter another marathon later in the year to make my training pay off. :)
