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 Posted: 05/29/06 - 15:12 Post subject: I Saw A Dog Chasing A Cat, and They Were Both Walking
Mad City (Madison WI) Half-Marathon
This was more a training run than a planned race. That was my approach for the day. With one exception below, I will not comment on the race "organization" - there are others who ran here this weekend that can express it far better than I (that is, they wouldn't get banned).
Like for RAS in Ottawa and Pug at Med City, Madison was a sauna on Sunday morning. The last time I looked on the TV before I left the hotel room (again the Best Western at the starting line), it said 75* with humidity at 78%. A lot of people like this - not me.
Started out with JU and runningunvi but lost them within the first mile. The first three miles got me to a 9:30 pace or so, which, given this was essentially a training run for me, was pretty good. After that it was steady ten minute miles the rest of the way. Plenty of water stops, and I prolly used way more of those than I ever have in a race. Due to some road construction, the course was slightly different from previous years, meaning a few more rolling hills. Sort of like Brookings, but all crammed into a half-thon course.
For a training run, I was quite pleased. For a race, given the heat, the time was slower than what I would have gone for, but the results were good, too. I took a fall in the fourth mile - I'm not exactly sure what happened. Rolled on my shoulder and came up with only a sore wrist. I went slow enough for the run where I only needed to walk on that damn footbridge over Washngton Street. We're not sure, but we think the temps at the finsh were pushing 90.
Like Med City, the directors called a stop to the race at the 5:15:00 mark - they handled it pretty much the same way.
Results - training run pace would have gone from 2:01:50 (9:15) to 2:17:38 (10:30). My time fell somewhere in there...
Official - 2:09:32  - see below
Watch - 2:08:50
Chip - 2:08:31
Placings based on official time:
Overall - 786 of 2038
Male - 466 of 903
AG - 34 of 86
And my one complaint. If there's an official time that is being used to determine your place, and there's a separate, discrepant by the chip time (by 1 full minute for me), why do they bother using chips?
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Posted: 05/29/06 - 15:17 Post subject:
 This was great for you considering the heat factor! You did well. 
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Pug
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Posted: 05/29/06 - 16:12 Post subject:
Chip time should always determine place and be official...otherwise what's the point?
Nice job, all things considered (why does that seem like it will be the theme of the weekend?)
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karlene
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Posted: 05/29/06 - 16:29 Post subject:
Good Boy!! 
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Posted: 05/29/06 - 16:42 Post subject:
nice half for you g, finishing strong in that heat is really good stuff. great going.
the fall would have done me in 
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JUJR
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Posted: 05/29/06 - 19:25 Post subject:
good run for a hot dog
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GaRebelRunner
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Posted: 05/29/06 - 19:51 Post subject:
Not bad at all. I've seen several race reports on Madison this weekend and all of them talk about the heat. Drinking extra water was probably a good thing.
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Zatoichi
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Posted: 05/29/06 - 20:40 Post subject:
Nice goin' GR  ,
but WTF is with that "official" time?!? 
...and 90 at the finish =
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Ms. Jenn
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 00:28 Post subject:
You deserve a treat!
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