2006 3M Half Marathon
Monday Jan 30, 2006
On Sunday 2006-01-29 I ran the 3M Half Marathon in Austin. The course was the same as last year, very much a downhill course. I was attempting to run at about marathon goal pace as a warmup for the Freescale Austin Marathon on 2006-02-19. Conditions were very nice, staring in the mid to upper 40s and rising into the low 50s as the race went on.
My race went well until mile 9 or 10 when my right calf got very tight and sore. I stopped briefly to try to massage it, but that didn't help all that much. I ran in on it, partly as an exercise to see if I could run through the pain. I could. I know some folks are probably thinking that it wasn't bright to run through the pain, but I really didn't feel that I'd injured anything. And if this same sort of thing happens on marathon day, I want to know that I can run through it for at least some amount of time. Anyway, I finished with a chip time of 2:06:52 and an average pace of 9:41 per mile, beating my MGP by 2 seconds per mile. I also got negative splits, doing the first 10k at a 9:46 pace and the last 6.89 miles in a 9:36 pace. And that last part in spite of having a very tight calf for about 4 miles or so. At any rate, not a bad race, even with the sore calf. I'm hoping I can work out the kinks in that leg before the marathon. We're in the taper now (or should I say peak) so I should have plenty of time to recover before the big race.
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Posted by James Dickens on January 30, 2006 at 03:49 PM CST #