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Started 1 year ago by bebo
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bebo
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Hello Hustlers: I am just sitting here in San Diego and going a little bit nuts waiting for the next 20 hours to go by so I can get to the start of the S.D.R&R Marathon. I had some issues with a very sore calf that made me miss a couple of the last important weeks of training but all seems fine so I will be out there tomorrow to try my first marathon. Drove the course this morning and there sure are of lot of hills. That should be offset by the near perfect weather. It is about 62 degees right now with a light wet fog, same expected tomorrow. OK, now I will try to nap, have to rise at 3:30 AM to make it to the start on time. Why do races start so darn early !!!!!! BEBO aka.Bullhead Bob aka.BOB

PS. are any other Hustlers running this race????

Posted 1 year ago #
kodi
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Bebo, Good luck on your first marathon. The important thing for first timers is to finish it without worrying a lot about the time. The reason races, especially marathons start so early is so you finish before it gets too hot, but you probably already know that. Don't worry too much about the hills, for every up there is supposed to be a down. Weather sounds great. Anxious to read a report when you finish. GOOD LUCK!!!

Posted 1 year ago #
Rhett
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Good luck Bebo. I'm always glad that races start so early because I never sleep a lick the night before a race anyways. It is always a happy moment when I get to get out of bed and start getting ready.

Posted 1 year ago #
kbarnett
Key Master

Hey Bob! How did it go?! Yes, there were quite a few other Hustlers that ran SD as a relay team. We're anxious to read all your race reports when you return!

Posted 1 year ago #
racerg
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Hi Bebo! I have to apologize for not knowing who you are; or maybe I have met you on a run but just don't realize it. There were 5 other Havasu Hustlers in San Diego last weekend in the form of a Relay race team. Myself, Leonora, Christina and Terri made up the 4 person team called "The Queens of Damn near everything" and my husband Bill was on a team as well. I hope you had fun running the marathon....we had a BLAST running the relay. Very organized event, beautiful course and I can't stop talking about all the energetic people along the course cheering everyone on (I have never seen anything like it before). We finished our "relay" marathon in 4:01:37 and finished 27th out of 94 teams in the "all female" division. Bill's team finished in 3:31:11 and placed 17th out of 196 in the co-ed division. What a great race! Gina (Racer G) P.S. Tell us how you did!!!

Posted 1 year ago #
kodi
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Hey Gina, good run you all had. I checked results yesterday afternoon and was impressed. The thing that really got me was the difference distances you each had to run. I found that very strange but apparently it worked well for your team. What's next...FONTANA? or are you out for it?

BeBo, also looked up your results, really good for a 'senior' doing his first marathon. Congratulations. When's the next one?

Posted 1 year ago #
kbarnett
Key Master

Gina, that's fantastic! Any chance we'll get a race report from you? Could be website front page worthy! I'll look up results and post them on our website this week.

Posted 1 year ago #
bebo
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Well I am back in Bullhead City after my first Marathon experience. Really glad I picked San Diego for the first one. We stayed in an RV park in La Mesa and were able to take the fantastic Trolley system everywhere we wanted to go. I was up at 3AM and on the trolley along with many other runners a 4:15AM. Could not believe just how big a 15,000 runner race really is. Started out to the sounds of Mick Jagger's Start Me Up,feeling great and full of energy. The bands, cheerleaders, & thoussand of cheering people made the first half seem like a walk in the park and I saw my wife and re stocked my hydration belt at the half way point, about a minute ahead of my dream pace in 2:06. It was at about mile 17 that I began to feel like this might not be so easy. At mile 20 I came to a little bridge and the energy just left me and I had to walk a bit to reach the top. At mile 22 the 4:15 pacer passed by and I just could not stay with him, it was then that I decided this was the hardest thing I had ever done and I would never do it again. I was only going at about a 11:00 min pace for the last 2 miles and even then I think I was passing as many as were passing me....I was so so tired that it took a hour to make it through the recovery zone and meet my wife in the family area were I had to be helped to get my sore body down to the ground for some much needed stretching. After a bunch of free cookies and two free beers I had the energy to get on the bus, then the trolley, and then to my wonderfull RV bunk were I was sound a sleep at 5PM. Oh Yeah---My official time was 4:25:22, just 10 min. shy of a BQ. for this old man. Watch Out Tucson, Here I come.....

Posted 1 year ago #
kodi
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Great report and time Bebo. I think every time I run a marathon I say it's the last one then I sign up for the next one. It's the thing that keeps us motivated and a reason to train. If I don't have a goal, I become lazy about my training. If you're looking for a good marathon that might work for a BQ you might think about Top of Utah. It's in Logan (well it ends in Logan). The first 15 miles (or something close to that) is downhill. The last part is mostly flat with a little rolling terrain. I've run it two times and both times ran 3:51, but that was when I was a kid (LOL). I'd sure like to get back to under 4:30 again, my BQ time.

Posted 1 year ago #
kbarnett
Key Master

Congratulations and great race report Bob! Thanks for sharing. I have only ran half marathons and have often felt that I wouldn't do those again - I couldn't even imagine running a full! But never say never, right?! And first I need to actually start running again - it's been 7 weeks now with my injury. Whhaaaa! Needless to say, I agree whole heartedly with Mel - signing up and training for a race is what keeps me motivated. Sure, I always continue to run, bike and swim, but when I'm in training mode there's a whole different intensity to it!

Posted 1 year ago #
sumo
Member

way to go, bebo!! i love to read these race reports especially from those of us doing a marathon for the first time. do you feel your training got you prepared adequately? did you follow one specific training plan or combined a few together? what training tip(s) would you share with someone else training for their 1st marathon? what race tip(s) would you share? 3 am is so gosh darn early - wow. and just 10 min shy for bq - good job. that's a goal you can easily work on. good job!

Posted 1 year ago #
kodi
Member

Sue, Did I miss something? What marathon are you planning on? Figured it was in your cards sometime soon.

Posted 1 year ago #
sumo
Member

planning on doing chang in phoenix in january. i am way ahead of any schedule for training but since the saturday morning runs have been so pleasant, i'm already adding mileage. i know when it's too hot in the mornings i'll back off but just kind of experimenting now with the mileage and mental part of all this.

Posted 1 year ago #
bebo
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Sumo, If anything I would say that I may have have been a little ahead of myself when training for the San Diego Marathon. I had already done three 20 mile long runs and was doing 40-45 miles a week by the time I ran the Havasu Half. Then I tried to improve from that condition by uping the miles to 50-55 till the Full. One week before begining a 3 week taper I over did a 10 mile run by going at below my half marathon pace, pulled something in my calf at the 8 mile mark and limped 2 miles back to my car. My leg got swollen and it was 2 weeks before I could even jog again. I even went to see a doctor, who could find nothing wrong. Showed up race day not knowing how far I would get, and still got a little carried away with the early miles.. I am now taking it easy for the next couple of months with like 15 to 20 miles a week, then will begin training the middle of August for the Tucson Marathon.
Only thing I will change will be to do less speed work which is hard on old guys and TRY to slow down and get more time on my legs at one time. I was doing my long runs at about a 30 second a mile slower pace than I ran the marathon. When I reached mile 22 I was in new territory as to how long I had been running.
The Rock & Roll people put on a good fun race so you should have a blast in Phoenix. I am doing Tucson because of some fantasy about a BQ.

Posted 1 year ago #
kodi
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Bebo, I know the longer runs are important and doing 2 or 3 20-22 milers is great. I ran my best marathons when I could get the weekly mileage up in the high 50s or low 60s. I remember reading years ago you will usually hit the wall about 3 times your daily average. So if you average 56 miles a week that is 9 miles a day and theoretically you shouldn't hit the way. Of course this was in the pre GU and energy replacement drink days. However, I would still do speedwork. You want to get faster, you have to train faster. They don't have to be formal track sessions (Rhett doesn't do intervals and he's a sub 3 hour runner) but Fartleks, pickups, tempo runs are all an important part of marathon training.

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