Half Marathon
Tim had his first crack at a half marathon today and it went very well. Once again the winter weather here was dry, very light winds with warm sun and moderate air temps around 15C (56F). The course was pretty flat (with a climb only in the final 1km) and these conditions helped to achieve a time of 1hr 25mins 48secs (or so, their automatic timing was messed up and someone was standing in front of the seconds on the timing clock at the finishing line... so I had to squint at my watch as I gasped for air in the finishing channel).
For any running nerds the 5km splits were 19.40, 20.26, 20.54 (bettering my 15km PB), and 20.42.
Edit: My "official" time was finally given as 1.25.45, good for 4th in the 40-44s and 20th overall in a field of 374.
Tim had his first crack at a half marathon today and it went very well. Once again the winter weather here was dry, very light winds with warm sun and moderate air temps around 15C (56F). The course was pretty flat (with a climb only in the final 1km) and these conditions helped to achieve a time of 1hr 25mins 48secs (or so, their automatic timing was messed up and someone was standing in front of the seconds on the timing clock at the finishing line... so I had to squint at my watch as I gasped for air in the finishing channel).
For any running nerds the 5km splits were 19.40, 20.26, 20.54 (bettering my 15km PB), and 20.42.
Edit: My "official" time was finally given as 1.25.45, good for 4th in the 40-44s and 20th overall in a field of 374.
posted by Tim | 4:35 AM
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