Joker's Wild Half Marathon

Joker's Wild Half Marathon this morning. Was suppose to start at 6am, but they piddled around and didn't get things started until 6:25, boo to them. Race went pretty good, but I didn't push it much. Ended up with a 2:12:17 time (unofficial for the 13.07 distance according to the garmin. AHR was 164, which is low considering it was starting to get warm, but like I said, I took it fairly easy. Took walk breaks about every mile while walking up hills, and there were hills. A big one going up Dorsett, and a smaller one near the end of the loop. Since it was a double loop course, hit them twice. I took my Shot Blocks break the second time around on Dorsett, during my 9th mile.

Splits were as follows, 9:53, 10:11, 10:05, 9:05, 9:35, 10:11, 9:51, 10:18, a 0:53 split to try to get the garmin back to matching the markers, though it reality I just hit a marker that seemed to be off, 10:54 (shot blocks mile), 10:12, 10:07, 10:03 and a final lap of 10:53 for just short of a mile. The final mile included a decent hill coming up to Westport Plaza that I walked up for about 4 minutes or so, but I was walking briskly then kicked in the pace when I got running after this. Overall happy with how I ran. Post race, I waited for Judy, then we got yummy pancakes, and then stopped by and saw who was left of the FFRC at St Louis Bread Company to say high and give an on the spot race report.

Prerace, I give it a C (chip pickup the morning of the race? no timer at start so no chip time? nearly a half hour late on the start?), race support I'll give a B (a bit thin on volunteers but they did fine), course I'll give a C (dull area, double loop), postrace I give an A- (they had towels, but ran out before Judy and I finished, which would have been nice on a sweaty day). With the price, seems like the prerace should be handled better, but other than that, pretty good. Weather was very nice, but was starting to get warm near the end, if only they would have started on time... heh. I'll edit with official results when they're posted.

Plan on running the miles this next week, but taking it fairly easy.

Edit: Results, Overall 236 of 340, 150 of 185 Men, 28 of 34 Age Group (35-39). Yes, I'm still slow, heh.