{"id":34,"date":"2008-12-07T22:22:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2013-11-24T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T21:27:04","slug":"need-for-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2008\/12\/07\/need-for-speed","title":{"rendered":"Need For Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, I ran the Sacramento California International marathon<\/a>. This was my second marathon after the Rock’n roll marathon<\/a> I ran in San Diego in June earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The official results are up<\/a> and I did it in 3:29:35 (my watch said 3:29:39 but then, it also said I ran 26.44 miles). That is 6 minutes 24 seconds faster than San Diego :).<\/p>\n

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Race conditions were pretty good except maybe for the weather. 38F at the start and never more than 46F with a heavy layer of… pollution?. I wore long sleeves, a cap and gloves for the whole race and I was still cold at time. It did not prevent some other people to run shirt-less. Go figure!<\/p>\n

My race went well. I had a good tempo that I managed to maintain for the whole race. I ran the first 1\/2 of the race in 1:45 and the second part in 1:44:39. I had decided to run with the 3:30 pace group so that helped a bit but the truth is that 2 pit stops (at mile 4 and 15) made me loose the group twice. If you add the fact that I could not get close to the pace leader at the start, I had to catch-up with the group three times. I managed to do it twice, but the third time, I never saw the group again.<\/p>\n

The last 5 miles were hard as expected. Good thing is that I did not hit the wall this time. I managed to maintain my pace through and did not walk. It was a huge mental fight. I managed to push myself by dedicating these miles to people that are important to me and saying I was running hard for them.<\/p>\n

A lot of great things come out of this race. I managed my pace well, I did not walk, I had adequate clothes, I ran in less than 3:30. One thing I still have to work on is nutrition and liquid intake. Having to stop twice to the bathroom is not good.<\/p>\n

This was also my 4th and last race this year. In addition to these 2 marathons, I also ran the 10 Mile Cherry Blossom<\/a> in Washington DC in April and the San Jose Rock’n roll 1\/2 marathon<\/a> in October. I will take it easy on the running for the rest of the month. All in all, I think I have run over 1000 miles this year. At an average of 8 minutes a mile, that represents over 133 hours on the road :).<\/p>\n

Looking forward, my main running goal is still to qualify for Boston<\/a>. And to do that, I need to complete a certified marathon in less than 3:10:59. I am still far but I think I can make it. My current thought is to concentrate on 1\/2 marathons for the first half of next year with the idea of running one in 1:30 or less. I still have to plan things out so we will see what I decide on doing at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, I ran the Sacramento California International marathon. This was my second marathon after the Rock’n roll marathon I ran in San Diego in June earlier this year. The official results are up and I did it in 3:29:35 … Continue reading →<\/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\/34"}],"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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}