Long Beach Half Marathon - October 7, 2012
The Long Beach Half was last Sunday. I did not get a PR. But I did keep a steady pace, which is the same pace I hope to keep for the 26.2 miles of the NYC Marathon. I also got a nice, big Beach Cities Challenge medal for running the Surf City, OC and Long Beach half marathons consecutively this year.
The Long Beach Marathon home page has a link to the race results that displays your race time in a pretty cool way. Hopefully the link works.
From this link, it shows that I finished the half in 2:26:47, which equates to about a 11:12 pace. Overall, about 48% of all the runners finished before me, but in terms of women, only about 37% finished before me. Not bad. I am not an elite runner, but its nice to see that I am right about in the middle of the pack. My husband ran the full marathon and finished with an 11:15 pace. That put him in at 4:54, which was a PR for him. I just want to break 5 hours for NY, so I hope that I can come in right at that pace.
I used this half as a training run for NY, and as we are about 3.5 weeks out for NY, I am really nervous that I haven't prepared enough. My longest runs have been 16 miles, although I am aiming for a 20 miler this Saturday. I just hope I can get through it. I ran 7.4 miles last night at a 10:45 pace, and felt pretty good. The weather has finally cooled down and I can actually head out for a run right after work.
The bad thing about running...I am hungry all the time. After the race on Sunday, we had burgers, fries, bloody marys and beer as a reward meal at Congregation Ale House. I also got iced coffee and boba from Ozero on the way home. About two hours later, we ordered an extra large pizza from Round Table for dinner. Last night after my run, I was famished, and luckily my husband prepared a nice dinner of chicken with kale and spinach and a side of a quinoa/cous-cous/grain blend. It was really good. But I was still hungry! We ended up going out to get frozen yogurt at Menchie's for a late night dessert. I have minimal self-discipline when it comes to eating after runs.
