Originally I had intended to register for the Sweetwater Sweetheart half back in early January while it was cheap but never really got around to it but decided at 9p on Friday to run the race. Fortunately it had been a lighter week for me in terms of running (12.75 on Monday and 4.5 on Thursday).
Saturday morning was freezing...for Atlanta standards. It was a horrible 39 degrees when I got in the car at 645am and by the time I got to the race the temperature dropped to 33 degrees, boo.
The race started a couple minutes late, which sucked because all of us runners were stuck out on a hill and the wind was BLOWING. Finally we started and things heated up. Doing the majority of my trail running at Sweetwater, I was pretty familiar with most of the course. We took the usual trails until we hit the 4 miles point, then we took a left over a bridge that I had never been on and now I know why. At mile 6 the hills were nasty. So nasty that you could not run down the other side because you would have fallen. So after about 3 miles of that, we turned around and did it again...
Once things smoothed I managed to run down some people and was feeling pretty good. (My mind was telling me that it must had been all that yoga.) At the final water stop, some spectator told my little group that we were in the top 25, which really kinda shocked me and it gave me a little extra energy.
Finally my watch beeped for the 13th time and I knew the race was nearly complete so I gave it one last push as we raced up a hill. Unfortunately, there was no finish line at the top of the hill but I had used a good bit of my remaining energy to push up it and pass some people. Anyway, the race went on for another half mile but finally ended.
I was pretty pleased with my time (2:17:39) ended up finishing #26 overall and #1 in the 30-34 age group. Boom!
Mile
|
Time
|
Pace
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1
|
8:20
|
8'20"/mi
|
2
|
17:04
|
8'44"/mi
|
3
|
26:58:00
|
9'54"/mi
|
4
|
36:41:00
|
9'43"/mi
|
5
|
49:38:00
|
12'57"/mi
|
6
|
1:02:46
|
13'08"/mi
|
7
|
1:11:52
|
9'06"/mi
|
8
|
1:21:54
|
10'02"/mi
|
9
|
1:33:11
|
11'17"/mi
|
10
|
1:43:45
|
10'34"/mi
|
11
|
1:52:25
|
8'40"/mi
|
12
|
2:02:27
|
10'02"/mi
|
13
|
2:11:49
|
9'22"/mi
|
See you out there!
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