{"id":1180,"date":"2009-06-09T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:10:03","slug":"race-report-san-diego-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2009\/06\/09\/race-report-san-diego-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Report: San Diego Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race:<\/strong> San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon
\nDate:<\/strong> May 31st, 2009
\nLocation: <\/strong>San Diego, California<\/p>\n

Notes:
\n<\/strong>I’ve always reminded myself that I wouldn’t run this race as ‘hard’ as I did the one a few weeks ago. This was to be my recovery race, if there’s such a thing as a\u00a0recovery marathon! Hehehe. This was also the first time I’d be running as a “Coach” to a friend who was running her first<\/em> marathon, so I didn’t want to be selfish about besting my personal record five weeks after I did.<\/p>\n

Well, the experience was rewarding,\u00a0 humbling and definitely something that I may do again. Being a (now) six-time marathon runner (and this was my fifth San Diego race), you go through the motions in your mind of what may happen and wondering if anything you felt at the previous race will <\/em>happen again. For a first-time marathoner, this wasn’t the case — the entire race is unknown and despite the training that one goes through, you’re never really prepared mentally, if not physically! (though I hope it’s just the former).<\/p>\n

Running at a pace that’s about a minute and a half than what you’d normally run (for 26.2 miles and at a different running interval) is also a somewhat misleading. You’d think that it’d be fine the entire way because you think it’ll be “easy” but you really start feeling the pounding on your legs and knees\u00a0the last few miles of the run. However, other than the shoulder tightness that resurfaced towards the end of the race and well into my Zero Week, keeping your mind focused on someone other than yourself helped make for a race that was relatively trouble-free (for me, anyway).<\/p>\n

That doesn’t mean that it was an easy feat, though! My friend, Sheryl, whom I was running with, hit her “wall” around mile 15. Still,\u00a0we both listened to each other and humoured me when I asked her to start running again during our intervals. Then, when she’d ask for an extended walk break, I naturally obliged. Throughout the race, I made sure that we’d, at first, finish our targetted time, but\u00a0adjusted accordingly when our pace got slower and the fatigue had set in.<\/p>\n

Despite her feeling the aches and pains that came with long distance running (and the fact that she’d only had 2 to 3 hours’ worth of sleep the night before!), Sheryl was indeed a trooper. She remained strong until the very end, especially\u00a0when we upped the pace at the last quarter mile! LOL. Okie, that was entirely my fault, they moved the finish line a few hundred yards back, so when I told her, “this is it,” we were really far from over! But man, she ran that last stretch and made it look really easy!<\/p>\n

\u00a0It was truly a different San Diego experience this year. The funny thing is, Sheryl ran quicker than me when I ran the race last year<\/em>! LOL. Remember, I finished over 7 hours. Not too shabby for her first marathon, eh?<\/p>\n

Congrats again, Sheryl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Race: San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon
\nDate: May 31st, 2009
\nLocation: San Diego, California
\nNotes:
\nI’ve always reminded myself that I wouldn’t run this race as ‘hard’ as I did the one a few weeks ago. This was to be my recovery race, if there’s such a thing as a\u00a0recovery marathon! Hehehe. This was also the first time read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[446,224,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}