Today is the 29th of April!! Which means I ran a marathon yesterday. And not just any marathon--Big Sur was absolutely spectacular, but very challenging. The views were amazing, the entertainment along the route was fabulous and it was a really well organized run. The weather was absolutely perfect AND I beat the six hour cut-off time!
I can go into the details, but there would be a lot of runner jargon about split times, pace, blah, blah, blah. So, I'll just go over the highlights first.
Hills. There were lots and lots of them. And not my usual Floridian "hills" (what we have in Florida are just swells, I have discovered, not real hills), but ones that went on for forever...or at least a mile or two at a time, which felt like forever as I was going up them.
I started out with the 5:30 pace group, which is a time I would have loved to finished this run in. I kept on with them until around mile 11, when the Hurricane Point hill began (THAT went on until almost mile 13!) and I needed to figure out how to best manage my pace, not go along with theirs. Which was really too bad, because they were a fun group to run with. But I decided that, for me, walking up the hills and letting gravity carry me down the hills and just running the flats was my best option.
At the bottom of Hurricane Hill were the Taiko drummers; I'm fairly certain this is a Polynesian tradition (though I could be wrong?) and the sound and the beat of those drums could have made me run forever!! At the top of the hill was a classical piano player. He definitely made the climb worth it, to hear both of those and the scenery in between was just amazing.
What can I say about the rest of the run? It was slow going, but I never felt like I couldn't finish. This is one of the few times I've been very careful about my pace though--normally I just run and don't worry about it. But because I'm slow I had to be careful to not hit the six hour mark. The scenery was so distracting that I was generally surprised at each mile marker: "wow, already?"
I really appreciated all of the people along the route who cheered us on, the volunteers were awesome, and it simply could not have been a better day.
I am also proud of the fact that I raised $1116 for Autism Speaks. When I was still with the 5:30 pace group, we were dedicating a mile to a person. When my turn rolled around I dedicated mile seven to my niece, Hannah, who was the reason I started this charity run to begin with.
I'm going to add some runner jargon below--you can find the hills based off of my pace, lol:
Split Time Pace
1 11:51.0 11:51
2 11:46.7 11:47
3 11:59.0 11:59
4 11:43.9 11:44
5 12:17.8 12:18
6 11:51.9 11:52
7 12:10.4 12:11
8 12:23.5 12:24
9 12:25.6 12:25
10 11:55.9 11:56
11 16:45.0 16:45
12 16:01.8 16:02
13 12:29.7 12:30
14 12:24.4 12:24
15 13:47.0 13:47
16 13:50.9 13:51
17 14:24.1 14:24
18 14:49.8 14:50
19 13:25.2 13:25
20 14:23.7 14:24
21 14:23.9 14:24
22 13:25.2 13:25
23 12:43.6 12:43
24 13:53.8 13:54
25 12:57.7 12:58
26 13:32.1 13:32
27 6:21.0 13:09
Summary
5:50:04 26.48 13:13
Overall time:
Time: 5:50:05
Moving Time: 5:32:57
Elapsed Time: 5:50:18
Avg Pace: 13:13 min/mi
Avg Moving Pace:12:34 min/mi
Best Pace: 5:41 min/mi
Elevation:
Elevation Gain: 2,598 ft
Elevation Loss: 2,910 ft
Min Elevation: 30 ft
Max Elevation: 623 ft
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