{"id":2198,"date":"2010-10-04T11:02:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:08:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:08:50","slug":"recap-manhattan-beach-10k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/04\/recap-manhattan-beach-10k\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Manhattan Beach 10k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Race: Manhattan Beach 10k<br \/>\nDate: October 2nd, 2010<br \/>\nStart Time: 7:30AM<br \/>\nLocation: Manhattan Beach, CA<\/p>\n<p>First off, I PR&#8217;d this race! Chip time was 1:06:57, which is a full 2 minutes and 27 seconds from my previous best! Though, I believe a few weeks ago (as posted on Athlinks), I posted that I was targeting a a sub-hour finish, but I&#8217;m taking this cos a Personal Record <em>is<\/em> a personal record. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>A few things to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Semi-preparedness. I&#8217;m glad I write these recaps for posterity because the night before the 10k, I was reading my past post on the same race (about 5 years ago). As a result, I was prepared for the worst &#8212; the course&#8217;s rolling hills and steep declines were still there! Now I remember why I haven&#8217;t done this race in 5 years! LMFAO<\/li>\n<li>Heart Rate Monitor. 191 bpm was my max heart rate at this race! Average heart rate was 179 bpm. I knew I was working hard but kept my breathing steady (albeit it was laborious towards the end) and I resisted looking down at my watch for fear of my brain telling my body to slow down. I <em>will<\/em> be mindful the next time, though and won&#8217;t let it get this high again. +_+ That, and I need to incorporate more mid-week speed training in my workouts as I get into the higher mileage of training.<\/li>\n<li>Humbled by this elderly lady. I&#8217;m always excited when I pass people during a run, especially if they seem more fit than I am \ud83d\ude09 Towards the final mile of this race, though, an elderly lady (and when I say elderly, I mean a lady who looked like she was 90 years old) literally flew past me! Inspired, I attempted to draft behind her and follow her pace but she was just too darn fast! I dropped off just as she kicked it up a notch from 9:30 min\/mile to 9:00! In hindsight, had I stayed with her, I probably would&#8217;ve dropped dead @ the finish, albeit gotten close to (if not achieved), my hour goal!<\/li>\n<li>Found Pace Leaders. Throughout the race, I probably found three or four people to follow and set the pace that I wanted to run (yes, including the elderly lady towards the end). However, (as usual) I always go too fast in the beginning and peter-out towards the end (still have to work on that). Finding people who run your ideal pace is nice, though and I&#8217;m fairly lucky that I found a couple who maintained their pace for at least the first half of the race.<\/li>\n<li>Proper nutrition. I didn&#8217;t really take any nutrition for this short race but I should&#8217;ve and just plain forgot to do so. I also felt dehydrated from the previous night (woke up at 2AM on race day because my mouth was parched) and that should&#8217;ve been my cue to hydrate a few hours later but nope. +_+ During the race, I did stop at two water stations, though (well, one was a jogging pass-through and most of the water ended up on my shirt. ROFL)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m pleased with my effort and though there&#8217;s loads of room for improvement, I&#8217;m still elated with the result. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race: Manhattan Beach 10k<br \/>\nDate: October 2nd, 2010<br \/>\nStart Time: 7:30AM<br \/>\nLocation: Manhattan Beach, CA<br \/>\nFirst off, I PR&#8217;d this race! Chip time was 1:06:57, which is a full 2 minutes and 27 seconds from my previous best! Though, I believe a few weeks ago (as posted on Athlinks), I posted that I was targeting a a sub-hour finish,  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/04\/recap-manhattan-beach-10k\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,224],"tags":[306,304,307,305,297],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198"}],"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=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}