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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Urban Wildland Half Marathon

Wow! It has been a while. I have been trying to study like crazy. I take my written prelim exam in 1 week and my oral prelim exam in about 3 weeks. If I pass both of them, I am officially a doctoral candidate. Yippee!

I have been running a little. My hip and knee are bothering me some but I need to run to stay sane.

On to the race report:
The Urban Wildland Half Marathon is a great race! It is a green race, even the bibs are compostable. The bibs are imbedded with black eyed susan seeeds. Cool!!! I can't wait to plant mine. The race...I wasn't sure how it would go with my hip and not running much in July. I thought I would take it pretty easy, shoot for around 2 hours. Well, I started out and I was excited to be racing and I felt good. I passed the first 5k in 22:05...oops that was way too fast. But I was feeling so good so I thought maybe I will just go with it. At mile 4, my hips started giving me some trouble so I slowed down and continued to slow down for the next 6 miles. It was miserable to be running and to have blown up so badly. People were passing me left and right. I got to mile 11 and said to myself just go, get this race done with. Okay so I picked up the pace a little and started to pass people. I finished in 1:42:59. Better than I thought I would do.

Stats:
39/641 women
16/254 age group

The bib while a great idea, in practice it wasn't so great. It fell off around mile 4.5. I grabbed it because I really wanted to plant the seeds.

So I have a duathlon in a week. I have yet to ride my road bike this year and I probably won't ride it before the race. I commute to school by bike but it is only 3.5 miles a couple times a week. This is the extent of my bike training. The bike portion is 18 miles. I did bike 14 miles one day this summer but I don't think it counts because I stopped twice for ice cream and once for tacos during the ride. Should I ride my road bike or just use the commuter that I have been riding all year?

Back to studying...

7 comments:

  1. Great job! I'm very impressed. You'll have to post an update on the bib planting- that sounds cool.
    For what its worth I think you should use the road bike-18 miles is long enough that you don't want to spend the entire time wishing you were on your faster bike...

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  2. What do you mean "doesn't count?" The more times you stop for ice cream the better.

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  3. Hi Julie,
    You are freaking amazing! Awesome job and fantastic time:) Go you!

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  4. Awesome job, Julie! The Urban Wildland was my first half marathon ever and I loved every second & every thing about it. I am so excited to hear it's even more green, because it was an awesome no-waste race way back in the day! Great job, keep recovering, and good luck with the doctoral candidacy!

    xoxo,
    A

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  5. the race bib sounds so cool! Nice finish. : )

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  6. Thanks everyone!

    Melanie-The only thing I am worried about with riding my road bike is my butt...

    Reuben-Agreed about the ice cream but it doesn't really count as much of a training ride especially since I didn't ride my road bike.

    Julie-Are you running the Women run the Cities 10 mile race?

    A-I hope the hills in San Francisco are treating you well. Thanks for the luck with school...it is kind of crazy.

    Molly-The race bibs are why I decided to do the race because they sounded so cool.

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  7. I just found your blog today! I'm a new follower!

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