Arun Gupta, Miles to go ...
Arun Gupta is a technology enthusiast, a passionate runner, and a community guy who works for Sun Microsystems.
Sunday February 01, 2009
Completed Kaiser Permanente San Francisco 1/2 Marathon - PR
I completed Kaiser
Permanente 1/2 marathon earlier today and the statistics are:
| Bib # | 2597 |
| Rank (in age group) | 130 of 517 |
| Rank (overall) | 858 out of 5817 |
| Chip time | 1:41:30 |
| Pace | 7:45 mins |
I'm a happy runner to beat my best time of 8:04 in Silicon Valley 2008.
The top-5 finishers are:
I thoroughly enjoyed the very well organized race. There were close to 9000 runners (the biggest so far in race's history of 26 years) with over 6000 1/2 marathon runners (record number as well). The parking lots were packed and so it took a while to find an empty spot. But after that every thing was seamless - boarding the shuttles, pre-race warm up, mile markers, post-race celebration, flexibility screening, and every thing else. And the weather certainly cooperated a lot with beautiful sun shining early in the race. I was certainly over dressed so had to lug my jacket/gloves with me. Loved the fact that somebody was announcing the minutes past since guntime at each mile marker - very personal and useful in my opinion!
Here are couple of possible improvements:
- Pace groups were very poorly planned. Even though there were markers for 5, 6 ad 7 min pace at start line but there certainly were some 10 minuters over there. It easily took a mile to filter through them. I like the way waves are planned in runsfm.com.
- No race medal :( I don't mind getting charged a few extra dollars but give me a race medal, c'mon please!
And finally here are some pictures:
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And you can certainly watch tweets at twitter.com/arungupta for more pictures.
Here are my timings so far:
| Marathon / Half Marathon | Total Time | Pace |
| Kaiser Permanente San Francicsco 1/2 2009 | 1:41:30 | 7:45 |
| Silicon Valley 1/2 2008 | 1:45:42 | 8:04 |
| San Francisco 1/2 2008 | 1:52:44 | 8:25 |
| San Francisco Full 2007 | 4:04:33 | 9:20 |
| Silicon Valley Full 2006 | 4:06:57 | 9:25 |
| San Francisco 1/2 2005 | 1:48:50 | 8:18 |
It seems running 31 days (out of 32 so far) in 2009 is helping :)
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