Sunday, October 10, 2010

Portland Marathon 2010

I started the race with thrice adjusted descending goals. After the
last few weeks of traveling, being sick and some other crap, I was not
feeling super strong going to the start line.

Speaking of the start line, it would have been useful to have actually
read through the race information to prevent wandering around in the
dark and rain trying to figure out where to go. I ended up starting
with group E, and was supposed to start with group A.

Fortunately it was all chip timed so I was fine - just had a lot of
passing to do the first few miles. All in all it was a good race -
enthusiastically supported, scenic with a few more hills than I
anticipated. I just worked to maintain an 8:40 pace and would
sometimes beat that depending on how many race skirts were ahead of
me...my motto was "so many race skirts, so few miles to pass them
all". :)

My splits were; 8:27, 8:49, 8:45, 7:52, 8:06, 16:45 (missed the mile
marker), 8:45, 8:33, 8:26, 8:25, 9:07, 8:32, 9:12, 8:10, 8:43, 10:21,
8:35, 7:48: 10:07, 9:04, 8:33, 9:08, 8:57, 9:07, 9:00, 2:07.

My watch has me at a 3:49:16 finish - enough to qualify me...barely
but today I will take it.

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