{"id":941,"date":"2013-08-11T23:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T06:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2013-08-15T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:37:58","slug":"water-to-wine-half-marathon-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/2013\/08\/11\/water-to-wine-half-marathon-2013","title":{"rendered":"Water to Wine Half Marathon 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This weekend, I ran my 15th half marathon: the Water to Wine Half Marathon between Sonoma Lake and Healdsburg, CA.<\/p>\n

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Since finishing the Pleasanton Half Marathon<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in 1:40:14 (7:41\/mile), I have been following a new training program that got me running 580 miles\u00c2\u00a0in 14 weeks so I had high hopes of getting back down to my early 2010 times<\/a> in the sub 1:35 zone.<\/p>\n

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The course is point to point with a net elevation loss though it is mostly rolling hills all the way. The weather was perfect with temperatures in the mid-50s. The race started 5 minute late at 7:05AM to give the lone wheelchair participant some welcome head start. Based on my expected finish time and last year’s results, I decided to position myself toward the front of the pack of 1200 or so runners so I crossed the start line 3 seconds only after the gun.<\/p>\n

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After a fast first half mile, I managed to settle at the 7:15\/mile pace necessary for a 1:35 finish time and successfully maintained it for the first 6 miles.<\/p>\n

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Since I was feeling good, I accelerated a bit to 7:10\/mile average for the next 5 miles, then down to 6:55 for mile 12, and again down to 6:30 for the last mile to finish 52nd in 1:33:53 (7:10\/mile average).<\/p>\n

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Of course, I am now hoping to run another sub 1:30 like I ran in 2010 at the San Jose Half Marathon<\/a>. My next race is actually the 2013 version of that event so we will see where I stand then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend, I ran my 15th half marathon: the Water to Wine Half Marathon between Sonoma Lake and Healdsburg, CA. Since finishing the Pleasanton Half Marathon\u00c2\u00a0in 1:40:14 (7:41\/mile), I have been following a new training program that got me running … 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\/941"}],"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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/david.blondeau.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}