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IU mini-marathon 2011!
Apr. 2nd, 2011 07:38 pmYou're probably at home, wondering aloud: "how fast do people run a half-marathon in Bloomington?"
In my case, the answer is: 1:36:55 -- pretty speedy! (complete results.)
That's not a PR, but only about three minutes slower than my previous best, and this was a harder course with a bunch of big hills. I felt pretty good about it. Beautiful day for a race!
( details and anecdotes! )
On the last half-mile, I felt pretty good, and I tried to queue up some NIN in my head to kick it in. I wasn't quite energetic enough to keep going at "Wish" pace, but I managed "Perfect Drug". I think I like running to music in my head better than music on headphones. And then there were friends from the running group and from campus more generally (including Markus from Computational Linguistics), and we ate post-race bagels and congratulated each other.
... then I came home and took a nap.
(I guess I never wrote about the Barcelona marathon we did last month? The trip was amazing and beautiful, and Lindsey and Graham had very good races, but mine was kind of suck: I might have been coming down with something...)
In my case, the answer is: 1:36:55 -- pretty speedy! (complete results.)
That's not a PR, but only about three minutes slower than my previous best, and this was a harder course with a bunch of big hills. I felt pretty good about it. Beautiful day for a race!
( details and anecdotes! )
On the last half-mile, I felt pretty good, and I tried to queue up some NIN in my head to kick it in. I wasn't quite energetic enough to keep going at "Wish" pace, but I managed "Perfect Drug". I think I like running to music in my head better than music on headphones. And then there were friends from the running group and from campus more generally (including Markus from Computational Linguistics), and we ate post-race bagels and congratulated each other.
... then I came home and took a nap.
(I guess I never wrote about the Barcelona marathon we did last month? The trip was amazing and beautiful, and Lindsey and Graham had very good races, but mine was kind of suck: I might have been coming down with something...)
