Sunday, May 11, 2008

Forest City 1/2 Marathon

Well...felt really good this morning. Woke up at 4:00am the make the 1:45 trip to London. Got there in Plenty of time to register and use the facilities before the big lines started. I had time to warm up and was pretty excited to start.



I was feeling good. 1st few miles were right on cue 8:00 miles. Then came the hills. As someone described them as gently rolling, I thought they were more like mountains. Windsor is very flat , London is not. It is not that I ever felt terrible but I had a hard time judging my pace (even though I had my Garmin on) I slowed on the hills and when I finally saw a down grade the wind was right in our face.



I walked all of the aide stations which took some time off . There were a couple of hills that I walked on also. In the end Garmin beat me by 8:40. I was a bit off pace but reasonable happy with my run considering the longest run I have done this season so far has been 13 miles. I could have been way more prepared and realize that following a plan would have been beneficial.



I was a perfect morning for a run the weather couldn't have been nicer other than the wind. The race in my mind was very well organized and I had a great time.



I had another Blogger encounter. Today I met ALI. She is just as funny in real life and it was really great chatting with her and putting a face (other than a profile picture) with the Blog!



I have to give a shout out to our Friend Dawn who qualified for Boston today at the Mississauga Marathon!!!!

2 comments:

Ali said...

Congrats again Jeff!

It was great to finally met you, I'll have to find a race in your area next.

Leslie said...

Hey Jeff I finally looked you up again! The picture of you and Mike reminded me to look for my pics from that weekend. Fortunately I put most of them on facebook since the computer crashed. So when is your first tri?