Fifty Wasn't Nifty at Scott and White Half Marathon
In fact, half marathon no. 50 was just plain hot and humid. 80 at the start and at least 85 at the finish!
My heat and humidity training right now is at 10 miles. A long way to go to face a late fall, hot marathon, but I'm thinking of discussing a strategy with my coach. He might have to help and log some miles on his .. Ok, I'll call it magenta .. Dave Scott bike.
Cover your eyes folks as this was definitely NOT "Lou Wilson" weather today.
2:49:04. Yikes! [I walked most of 10 to 12.5 in. I was starting to lose a lot of salt. I could see it pooling on my legs at the bottom of the front of my shorts. And just not too long ago here in the hotel room, I started to cramp really, really bad.]
The Scott and White Community Wellness Half Marathon is really a nice event. Even though Jeff Galloway was in attendance to celebrate the completion of their training group's efforts in Temple, this was really a no-frills event ... but with one of the nicest medals I've ever received.
At a minimum, it is continued field research for my half marathon feature coming up in the September issue of Inside Texas Running - which is where my column will switch to. (I go from being in the same publication with Jon Warren and Greg Lautenslager to Scott Eppelman and Dick Beardsley.) Nice company to share either way.
More later, but here's the damage report:
Mile 1 -- 10:24.90
Mile 2 -- 10:46.86 (21:11.76)
Mile 3 -- 10:45.72 (31:57.48)
First leg -- 3:10.44 (35:07.92)
Mile 4 -- 8:12.97; 11:23.41 (43:20.89)
Mile 5 -- 12:03.93 (55:24.82)
Mile 6 -- 12:09.05 (1:07:33.87)
Second leg -- 6:27.55 (1:14:01.42)
Mile 7 -- 7:16.47; 13:44.02 (1:21:17.89) *Burned some time talking to Galloway
Mile 8 -- 12:37.09 (1:33:54.98)
Mile 9 -- 12:51.50 (1:46:46.48)
Third leg -- 11:27.33 (1:58:13.81)
Mile 10 -- 3:34.45; 15:01.78 (2:01:48.26)
Mile 11 -- 15:56.42 (2:17:44.68)
Mile 12 -- 16:19.63 (2:34:04.31) *Talked with a guy for a good bit of these two miles
Mile 13 -- 13:53.17 (2:47:57.48) *Half way through decided to shuffle it in
Last .1 -- 1:06.65 (2:49:04.13)
The course was a double out-and-back. Primarily flat; one small hill. Three aid stations. Roads not closed, but low volume and pretty well controlled. Volunteers were excellent. Some places not a lot of shade from the sun and the heat.
Although I carried a water bottle, I couldn't offset the loss of salt with the small cups of Gatorade to prevent slosh in the stomach either. It just goes to tell me that I have more work to do in these types of conditions.
It makes you wonder how I ran 2:23 in Parkersburg, West Virginia on a hilly course with no sleep after a delayed flight and only do 2:49 on a basically flat course in Temple on 3 hours sleep after a 3-hour drive.
This is a crazy sport that we're in.
The best line would be a Rick Cook one: "Hey, it wasn't the time that you wanted, but you finished."
My heat and humidity training right now is at 10 miles. A long way to go to face a late fall, hot marathon, but I'm thinking of discussing a strategy with my coach. He might have to help and log some miles on his .. Ok, I'll call it magenta .. Dave Scott bike.
Cover your eyes folks as this was definitely NOT "Lou Wilson" weather today.
2:49:04. Yikes! [I walked most of 10 to 12.5 in. I was starting to lose a lot of salt. I could see it pooling on my legs at the bottom of the front of my shorts. And just not too long ago here in the hotel room, I started to cramp really, really bad.]
The Scott and White Community Wellness Half Marathon is really a nice event. Even though Jeff Galloway was in attendance to celebrate the completion of their training group's efforts in Temple, this was really a no-frills event ... but with one of the nicest medals I've ever received.
At a minimum, it is continued field research for my half marathon feature coming up in the September issue of Inside Texas Running - which is where my column will switch to. (I go from being in the same publication with Jon Warren and Greg Lautenslager to Scott Eppelman and Dick Beardsley.) Nice company to share either way.
More later, but here's the damage report:
Mile 1 -- 10:24.90
Mile 2 -- 10:46.86 (21:11.76)
Mile 3 -- 10:45.72 (31:57.48)
First leg -- 3:10.44 (35:07.92)
Mile 4 -- 8:12.97; 11:23.41 (43:20.89)
Mile 5 -- 12:03.93 (55:24.82)
Mile 6 -- 12:09.05 (1:07:33.87)
Second leg -- 6:27.55 (1:14:01.42)
Mile 7 -- 7:16.47; 13:44.02 (1:21:17.89) *Burned some time talking to Galloway
Mile 8 -- 12:37.09 (1:33:54.98)
Mile 9 -- 12:51.50 (1:46:46.48)
Third leg -- 11:27.33 (1:58:13.81)
Mile 10 -- 3:34.45; 15:01.78 (2:01:48.26)
Mile 11 -- 15:56.42 (2:17:44.68)
Mile 12 -- 16:19.63 (2:34:04.31) *Talked with a guy for a good bit of these two miles
Mile 13 -- 13:53.17 (2:47:57.48) *Half way through decided to shuffle it in
Last .1 -- 1:06.65 (2:49:04.13)
The course was a double out-and-back. Primarily flat; one small hill. Three aid stations. Roads not closed, but low volume and pretty well controlled. Volunteers were excellent. Some places not a lot of shade from the sun and the heat.
Although I carried a water bottle, I couldn't offset the loss of salt with the small cups of Gatorade to prevent slosh in the stomach either. It just goes to tell me that I have more work to do in these types of conditions.
It makes you wonder how I ran 2:23 in Parkersburg, West Virginia on a hilly course with no sleep after a delayed flight and only do 2:49 on a basically flat course in Temple on 3 hours sleep after a 3-hour drive.
This is a crazy sport that we're in.
The best line would be a Rick Cook one: "Hey, it wasn't the time that you wanted, but you finished."
posted by WalkSports.com | 9:30 AM
4 Comments:
I was thinking about you today - briefly considered dragging Mike up there to run the half but I / we wanted our sleep too bad. Did 14 in the high heat at home and body temperature got up to 187 degrees. Don't feel bad about the time, you got the miles in and finished in the heat, we'll be well set for fall, and it'll be here in no time. congrats.
I was thinking of you in this heat, Jon. My daughter lives in Temple and I seriously considered driving out there to run with you, but I couldn't pull it together quick enough.
Amazing finish considering the conditions. I was dying on my 5 mile trek through Burroughs Park which was nicely shaded!
holy cow, it must have been crazy hot and huimid. I can't imagine running in worse weather than we did when we ran P-burg together. In fact, I prob wouldn't run in those conditions, so kudos to you for that. I'm not doing P-burg this year b/c I'm doing Iron Babe here. At least in the tri you are wet after the swim. That helps!
50 Half's! That's quite an accomplishment! Congrats.
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