Re: Race Report Miami Half Marathon

Tony S. wrote:
> "Ylan Segal" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Good job for your first. Oddly, I've never run a HM.

Did you just jump from a 10K to a Marathon? Is this common? I thought
that a HM was a more reasonable goal for me and involved less chance of
an injury.

>>
>>I proceeded with a very light warm up and some stretching, and pretty
>>much just stand around looking at everyone else play around with the
>>championchip, heart rate monitors, shoelaces, bib number, etc. I had
>>done all that at home, so I was just sipping some water I brought with
>>me. At around 5:45 I got in my assigned corral and ate one cliff shot
>>gel as planned.
>
>
> Seems like you planned everything really well and that helped you to be
> relaxed at the start. Interesting that you took the cliff shot before
> running. They normally recommend that you drink a full glass of water with a
> gel, which I wouldn't want to so so close to the start. Also, I'm of the
> opinion that it primes the fat burning system better if you take your
> pre-race nutrition an hour before the race, allowing your blood sugar to
> equalize again. Then after you've been running for at least 20-30 minutes,
> you're body will handle the gel differently, and you will burn fats more
> effectively for the whole race.

The water really doesn't bother me before running. I usually drink a
full glass just before going out the door for a run, so this wasn't
really different.

I wouldn't know about the fat burning business, but I will definitely
give it some thought and experiment a little. For my long runs, I had a
piece of toast and some fruit (not a lot) before going out and then a
gel about 1 hour after starting. I figured I would do the same thing,
but substituted the gel for the fruit because I thought it would give me
more "punch".

>
> Did you calibrate the RS200 for more accurate distance?

As I mentioned on the other post, I did not calibrate beforehand. Of
course, now I have a pretty good calibration factor :)

>>
>>I don't have splits at exactly the mile markers. My polar thinks I only
>>ran 12.53 miles, so I adjusted accordingly. PM = Polar Miles
>
>
> Just curious, but why didn't you punch it on the true mile markers?

Well, I had the polar set to "Auto Lap" feature. It records laps when it
hit a mile. If I punched the lap when I hit 1 mile, I would have needed
to turn off the feature while running in the next 0.05 miles, so
everything would be nice and neat. Turning off the feature is not
terrible hard, but it does involve navigating through some menus. I
decided against it. Next time around the auto-lap will be off.

> Nice even race though, congratulations.

Thank you!

--
Ylan

"The universe is not required to be in
perfect harmony with human ambition"
~ Carl Sagan
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