{"id":1186,"date":"2014-04-13T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T03:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2014-05-12T22:39:49","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T05:39:49","slug":"santa-cruz-half-marathon-2014-pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2014\/04\/13\/santa-cruz-half-marathon-2014-pr","title":{"rendered":"Santa Cruz Half Marathon 2014 (PR)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/santacruz_large.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-902\" alt=\"santacruz_large\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/santacruz_large.png\" width=\"296\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I ran a the Santa Cruz half marathon in <strong>1:28:32<\/strong> (6:45 min\/mile).<\/p>\n<p>This is a new PR for me on the distance by 1 minute and 21 seconds. It pleases me a lot because I have been training very hard running 2,100 miles in the last 365 days.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Santa Cruz is my favorite half marathon so it is nice to run a PR there again like <a title=\"Rain, Wind and Speed\" href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2010\/04\/11\/rain-wind-and-speed\">I did in 2010<\/a>. The course is really nice, the race well organized, and the field size is great to make it enjoyable without feeling suffocated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-8.15.03-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1190\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-04-13 at 8.15.03 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-8.15.03-PM.png\" width=\"874\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-8.15.03-PM.png 874w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-8.15.03-PM-300x116.png 300w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-8.15.03-PM-500x194.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New this year was the presence of a pacer team. I ran most of the race 100-200 yards behind the 1:30 pacer. I had not really managed to stick with him early on but having him as a target was good enough as it motivated me to keep on running hard even when I ended up alone. And then later, on our way back W Cliff Dr, I finally overtook him with a bit more than 2 miles to go as I was down to a 6:30\/mile pace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-7.49.47-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1189\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-04-13 at 7.49.47 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-7.49.47-PM.png\" width=\"544\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-7.49.47-PM.png 544w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-7.49.47-PM-300x216.png 300w, http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screen-Shot-2014-04-13-at-7.49.47-PM-415x300.png 415w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The table above says I finished 24th for the marathon (there was a 5K and 10K as well) but once you add back the 6 overall winners, 3 male and 3 female runners that all ran faster, then I actually finished 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I ran a the Santa Cruz half marathon in 1:28:32 (6:45 min\/mile). This is a new PR for me on the distance by 1 minute and 21 seconds. It pleases me a lot because I have been training very &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2014\/04\/13\/santa-cruz-half-marathon-2014-pr\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1192,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}