I need to make this quick cause I'm late for work, Not exactly the report I wanted to give but I'm happy I went and did this race, totally last minute decision, thought it would be fun to run a sea level course while I'm in So. Cal. The hotel I'm staying at is having a NAMM convention, can't remember what that stands for but it's basically a conference for a bunch of musicians. AKA rockers, needless to say, there were parties in the halls and rooms around me until 4:00, luckily I went to bed at 8:00 and got 4 hours of sleep before the parties started. I convinced my co-worker friends to wake up at 5:00am and drive me to LA and watch the race, that's why I love my job so much. How many people work with people that would do that. Got to the race way to early, so I checked in, hit the portapotty as many times as I could and jogged probably 3 miles total, I'm saying 2 just to be safe as a warm up. Then went to the start line. Race started right on time with perfect conditions, about 50 degrees with a nice sea breeze. I knew the 1st half was slightly uphill, and then at mile 7 it turned around came back down the same road (Venice Blvd) with a avg downhill grade, plan was to go out in 5:30 - 5:40, hang on to sub 6:00 as long as I could and then negative split the last 6. Plan went well, I hit the 1/2 way point on target going up, but the slight uphill took a little more out of my legs than I had anticipated, once my body got into that 6ish range I couldn't seem to push any harder, believe me I tried but just couldn't do it, kind of strange, I didn't feel overly tired and the legs didn't hurt, they just didn't want to go any faster. At mile 10 when I saw that my goal was un-attainable mentally I kind of shut down and just wanted to be done. I kept pushing through but never got my speed back up, going down the home stretch I heard the announcer say that he could see the female winner coming, I didn't look back but that was enough motivation to push a little bit for the last .1. :) I don't really have a great excuse why I couldn't do it in 1:16 as planned, after my run on Monday I really thought I could do it. I felt good going into it, feel fine now. I think I just need a little more race experience, and learn to not mentally give up when the going gets tough.
| Distance | Time | Avg Pace
| Incline | Avg HR
| Max HR
| | 1 | 5:40 | 5:40 | 9' | | | | 2 | 5:50 | 5:50 | -12' | | | | 3 | 5:49 | 5:49 | 28' | | | | 4 | 5:57 | 5:57 | 43' | | | | 5 | 5:55 | 5:55 | -14' | | | | 6 | 6:11 | 6:11 | 38' | | | | 7 | 6:05 | 6:05 | 7' | | | | 8 | 6:06 | 6:06 | 19' | | | | 9 | 5:59 | 5:59 | -17' | | | | 10 | 6:10 | 6:10 | -22' | | | | 11 | 6:08 | 6:08 | -17' | | | | 12 | 6:22 | 6:22 | -30' | | | | 13 | 6:31 | 6:31 | -28' | | | | 13.1 | :52 | 6:21 | 0 | | | | Total | 1:19:42 | 6:04 | -5' | | |
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