{"id":434,"date":"2010-10-03T20:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T03:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/?p=434"},"modified":"2013-08-17T09:12:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T16:12:05","slug":"seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2010\/10\/03\/seven","title":{"rendered":"Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seven, that is the number of seconds I have now put between my half marathon PR and the 90 minute mark.<\/p>\n

Seven, that is also the number of minutes I shaved from\u00c2\u00a0last year’s PR<\/a> I recorded at the same race last year.<\/p>\n

Seven, that is how old I felt while running free, and full speed, in the final stretch of the race.<\/p>\n

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For my third participation to the San Jose Rock’n’Roll Half Marathon,\u00c2\u00a0I had set my mind on the 90 minute mark and decided to join the pace group at the start. Soon enough though, I had to let it go as the pace was feeling too fast for me and I did not want to implode later in the race.<\/p>\n

In place, I settled on a 6:55 min\/mile pace on my watch, knowing it was off by some at each mile, and cruised for the first 9 miles.<\/p>\n

At mile 9, I knew I was a bit behind optimal pace. Mind games were on full time and I had thoughts that I would not reach my goal.\u00c2\u00a0Still, I was feeling good physically so I upped the pace to around 6:45 for the next 3 miles.<\/p>\n

At mile 12, the clock was showing 1:22:50 and while pushing hard and struggling mentally to keep the pace, I was able to do the math and knew it was possible if I could just push a bit harder.<\/p>\n

I must have hit the runner’s high at the same time because I ran the next mile in 6:38 and went under the 6 min\/mile mark for the last stretch with the finish line in sight.<\/p>\n

I could hear the speaker counting down the seconds and see the clock ticking so I sprinted all out to finish in\u00c2\u00a01:29:53 for a new PR. The amazing thing is that, as of this moment, you can actually\u00c2\u00a0see it<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Now, I am really pumped and I feel I can run a BQ in Sacramento in early December so back to training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven, that is the number of seconds I have now put between my half marathon PR and the 90 minute mark. Seven, that is also the number of minutes I shaved from\u00c2\u00a0last year’s PR I recorded at the same race … 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\/434"}],"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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}