{"id":766,"date":"2009-02-02T05:36:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T13:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&#038;articleId=877&#038;blogId=1"},"modified":"2012-03-20T17:10:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T00:10:13","slug":"race-report-surf-city-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2009\/02\/02\/race-report-surf-city-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Race Report: Surf City USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:<br \/>\nI PR&#8217;d! I think it&#8217;s rather good because I had barely run the month before this race; had exactly 5 training runs. LOL. Still, I&#8217;m treating this race as a training run for my bigger event in April &#8212; the <a title=\"Camp Pendleton Hard Corps Marathon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.camppendletonraces.com\/marathon\/index.htm\">Camp Pendleton Hard Corps Marathon<\/a>. Before I forget, here&#8217;s what went right (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Had proper nutrition: Every 30 minutes or so, I had 3 Jelly Belly SportBeans<\/li>\n<li>Stuck fairly close to the Intervals: Every 6 minutes, walked 1 minute<\/li>\n<li>Kept going on the gradual inclines\/hills: I didn&#8217;t stop even if it hurt! LOL<\/li>\n<li>Ran with my sis! It&#8217;s amazing running with someone; you both push yourselves. I&#8217;ve raced with Bridget and her sis in the past and it helped so naturally, this helped, too. Come to think of it, I have done well running <em>with<\/em> other people I know. Sheryl &#8212; I&#8217;m deffo not leaving you at the SD marathon! I promise!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What went wrong (yes, there were stuff that I can improve upon):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Train. LOL! Simple enough. Do the mileage. I&#8217;m letting myself off a bit easy for this one because as mentioned earlier, I&#8217;m counting this as a training run.<\/li>\n<li>Less accoutrements or plan better what to do with them; I lost a good 5 to 8 minutes with my running sleeves (removing them from my arms, keeping them in my running belt!) and refilling my water bottle whilst dropping a tablet of Nuun into it. Yep, that&#8217;s a maximum of 8 minutes I could&#8217;ve shaved off! I&#8217;m going to figure out a more optimal way to do so considering the Hard Corps Marathon (HCM) will have an aid\/water station every 2 miles and not the usual one every mile<\/li>\n<li>Blazing sun and inclines; despite being rather cold, the sun got to me mid-race. That coupled with the &#8220;gradual&#8221; inclines makes for a rather laborious climb. I might want to incorporate some hill work and at least doing one run when it&#8217;s hot (HCM starts at 8:00AM; that&#8217;s a rather late start for a marathon with a 6-hour time-limit).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now the numbers: <a title=\"Garmin Results\" href=\"http:\/\/connect.garmin.com\/activity\/1988961\">Garmin results<\/a>; Nike+ Results (see below)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"198\" height=\"145\" data=\"http:\/\/nikeplus.nike.com\/nikeplus\/v1\/swf\/scrapablewidget\/rundetail.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"Nike+ Runs\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"type=individualRun&amp;userDefaultUnit=mi&amp;screenName=RaDragon&amp;dateFormat=MM\/DD\/YY&amp;id=271285628&amp;userID=2095953097&amp;region=us&amp;language=en&amp;locale=en_us\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/nikeplus.nike.com\/nikeplus\/v1\/swf\/scrapablewidget\/rundetail.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>N.B.<br \/>\nI should add that my average heart rate was 163 bpm. That&#8217;s not too bad considering it&#8217;s in the 70-80% zone with the benefits of improved aerobic capacity; optimal cardiovascular training&#8230; According to my watch&#8217;s manual, anyway! hehehehe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes:<br \/>\nI PR&#8217;d! I think it&#8217;s rather good because I had barely run the month before this race; had exactly 5 training runs. LOL. Still, I&#8217;m treating this race as a training run for my bigger event in April &#8212; the Camp Pendleton Hard Corps Marathon. Before I forget, here&#8217;s what went right (in no particular  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2009\/02\/02\/race-report-surf-city-usa\/\"> 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":[445,224,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766"}],"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=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}