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More details later but ran this on Sunday with a head cold still nagging me, and managed to do a 1:59:01 (9:05 pace), and placed 640/2978. I set out to try for a 9:00 pace and hit 8:59 min/miles for the first 10k and then faded a teeny bit to the 9:05 average (all the hills are in the 2nd half of the race too, btw.).
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I'm not very well trained (20-24 miles a week) so no PRs but was doing it as a training run toward some as-yet-undetermined marathon (Eugene is out due to other constraints).
The 9:05 min/mile pace is intentional: a sub 4 hour marathon takes a 9:09 pace. Someday I'd like to do sub 4. My average HR for this race was 139, which shows me I'm a bit detrained from previous peaks (should be more like 132).
I had a goo
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This final pic is the sprint to the finish...I had a lot left at the end since I was taking it relatively "easy".
Update: It's now 4 days later and my cold is almost gone...i.e. didn't get worse after the race. Always hard to know when a minor cold should be ignored or respected.
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