{"id":3847,"date":"2013-05-09T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T23:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2014-09-17T20:31:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T03:31:58","slug":"i-survived-my-back-to-back-halfs-and-a-bike-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2013\/05\/09\/i-survived-my-back-to-back-halfs-and-a-bike-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"I survived my back-to-back halfs (and a bike tour)"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 28th: Washington, DC Half Marathon
\nMay 4th: Irvine, CA Bike Tour
\nMay 5th: Irvine, CA Half Marathon<\/p>\n

That’s what my timetable read a fortnight ago. I still can’t believe I was able to do relatively well with my half marathon at the end of April — the inaugural Nike Women’s Half Marathon in DC — and then was able to PR my half marathon a week later in Irvine. Did I mention I also did the 50km (but it was officially a 33.9-mile) bike tour the day before my half personal best?<\/p>\n

I shouldn’t really be surprised though: my fitness has greatly improved over the past several months, thanks to consistently running at least twice during the week and then doing some sort of long-run or workout in the weekend. Also, I’m beginning to believe more in myself, thanks to friends who truly believe I can go faster! LOL. Yep, I still lack that little bit of self-confidence when out on the course and it took someone else to say that I could do it ’til I finally believed it! So, thanks to my friends Irene & Cristina! Irene knows<\/em> I can run faster — she notices that I’m always overly cautious, though. Cris tells me the same! So last weekend, when another friend said I can do the 50km bike ride, instead of just the 14mi one, I said sure! Then the next day, rather than follow the 2:30 or 2:20 pace group, I went with the 2:10 thinking that I’ll have a 10-14 minute buffer for my target goal time — I was amazed I broke 2:15 (and would’ve been able to break 2:10 had my mind not faltered 3 miles before the finish!) Keep in mind, my race goal was to run the half with an average pace of 10:40 min\/mile. I surpassed that “A” goal by running the half in 2:14.01, that’s an average pace of 10:14 min\/mile. Again, super stoked I’m actually exceeding my time goal, all because of a little bit of confidence \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m very excited with the prospect of having quicker times for next year’s goals — that’s if this sort of fitness (and confidence) holds up by next year! LOL. I still have two big races this year — my first trail run (She Rocks the Trails 25k) in a month and a few weeks, and then my first “real” sprint triathlon (Malibu Tri – classic distance in September). With those in mind, I’ll definitely be motivated with keeping up my fitness.<\/p>\n

I leave you now with the schwag from last weekend’s race: two race shirts (one bike jersey), two medals, and a brick!<\/p>\n

\"PCRF<\/p>\n

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April 28th: Washington, DC Half Marathon
\nMay 4th: Irvine, CA Bike Tour
\nMay 5th: Irvine, CA Half Marathon
\nThat’s what my timetable read a fortnight ago. I still can’t believe I was able to do relatively well with my half marathon at the end of April — the inaugural Nike Women’s Half Marathon in DC — and then read more »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847"}],"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=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}