{"id":24,"date":"2008-09-07T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/?p=24"},"modified":"2008-09-07T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T12:50:00","slug":"dick-beardsley-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/2008\/09\/dick-beardsley-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Beardsley Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I am pretty happy with my performance considering. I had several goals:<\/p>\n<p>Finish the race without destroying my foot. CHECK<br \/>Finish the race in under two hours. CHECK<br \/>Have fun. CHECK<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the numbers according to my garmin . . . pretty consistent until the end.<\/p>\n<p>06-Sep-08 at 08:37:16AM    13.27    01:56:46   <br \/>Lap 1 at 08:46:05AM    1.00    8:48   <br \/>Lap 2 at 08:55:05AM    1.00    9:00   <br \/>Lap 3 at 09:03:54AM    1.00 8:49   <br \/>Lap 4 at 09:12:33AM    1.00    8:39   <br \/>Lap 5 at 09:21:11AM    1.00    8:38   <br \/>Lap 6 at 09:29:45AM    1.00    8:34   <br \/>Lap 7 at 09:38:23AM    1.00    8:38   <br \/>Lap 8 at 09:47:06AM    1.00    8:43   <br \/>Lap 9 at 09:55:42AM    1.00    8:36   <br \/>Lap 10 at 10:04:38AM    1.00    8:56   <br \/>Lap 11 at 10:13:38AM    1.00    9:00   <br \/>Lap 12 at 10:22:57AM    1.00    9:19   <br \/>Lap 13 at 10:31:54AM    1.00 8:57   <br \/>Finish at 10:34:02AM    0.26    2:08   <\/p>\n<p>I almost missed the start of the race. Packet pickup was crowded &#8211; I think they had record participation this year. I went off in search of an out of the way bathroom before the race. I was quite a ways away from the start when I saw all the runners take off. I sprinted to the start and crossed the starting mats in the middle of spectators following behind the runners. I think I was one of the last to start. Of course that made me try to sprint at the start of the race. But after about half a mile of catching up with the pack I began to hold back a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>My heel was feeling pretty good. Only a vague dull pain, not the sharp biting pain I had been feeling the last couple weeks. I was passing everyone at the back of the pack for most of the race. My goal was to beat the two hour clock and I was doing well. My pace didn&#8217;t start to slip until after mile 10. I wish I could blame it all on my foot but the reality is my foot was not that bad. I was babying it a little bit but the slowdown in miles 11 and 12 was because I was feeling tired. I knew my training was not up to snuff and that was obvious in miles 11 and 12. I did drop down to walk some at the water stations. Fortunately I was ahead of my goal pace so I didn&#8217;t let it worry me. Better to save my feet and my body for the upcoming marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Overall I am real happy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlineraceresults.com\/race\/view_individual.php?make_printable=1&amp;bib_num=117&amp;race_id=8853&amp;type=result\">From onlineraceresults.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Dick Beardsley Half Marathon<br \/>Half Marathon<\/p>\n<p>September 6, 2008 &#8211; Detroit Lakes, MN<br \/>Summary<br \/>number of finishers:    832<br \/>number of females:    385<br \/>number of males:    441<br \/>average time:    2:01:00<\/p>\n<p>Gregory Cook<br \/>bib number:    117<br \/>age:    42<br \/>gender:    M<br \/>location:    Fargo, MN<br \/>overall place:    371 out of 832<br \/>division place:    39 out of 65<br \/>gender place:    268 out of 441<br \/>time:    1:56:45<br \/>pace:    8:55<br \/>guntime:    1:58:33<br \/>half split :    57:04<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, I am pretty happy with my performance considering. I had several goals: Finish the race without destroying my foot. CHECKFinish the race in under two hours. CHECKHave fun. CHECK Here&#8217;s the numbers according to my garmin . . . pretty consistent until the end. 06-Sep-08 at 08:37:16AM 13.27 01:56:46 Lap 1 at 08:46:05AM 1.00 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/2008\/09\/dick-beardsley-half-marathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dick Beardsley Half Marathon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,15],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-half-marathon","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregruns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}