Distance = 13.11 (Half Marathon)
Calories = 1661
Max HR = 198
Avg HR = 160
Running Index = 38
Sunday: Half Marathon race
Equipment: Asics Gel-Nimbus 11s, shorts, tech shirt
Rain was forecast, but it never showed. This was a fun run through beautiful scenery and neighborhoods. The start is in the heart of the Central Business District. The first hill is almost immediate as we climb to enter Kings Park. Kings Park includes the Western Australia War Memorial and the Botanical Gardens. We run over the hill and out the other side before turning around and running back around the other side of Kings Park and out the same place we entered. This adds the 9 kilometers needed to complete the half. The rest of the route is the 12K that was the original City-to-Surf event and draws huge numbers. (The full marathon with 1,500 and the half with 3,000 represent a small part of the over 40,000 total participants.) We complete the first 10K as we rejoin the rest of the runners. (The full marathon run down near the river for the first half and then tuns the half marathon route to the finish.) The middle part of this race is run through local neighborhoods including Subiaco. The final section is in a park and the finish is in sight of the Indian Ocean.
This race is well supported with Powerade and water at all aid stops (roughly every 2km). There is a finishers medal and a finishers t-shirt (only in XL by the time I got there). Plenty of Powerade at the finish. They had run out of the fruit by the time I got there. Just past the finish area is a venue for the sponsors and company teams. There were also food vendors. I got a mango smoothie as it was available from the shortest line. There were shuttles back to Wellington Station near the start. This was a bit painful to wait on sore legs and feet, but the buses were being loaded about as fast as possible and there was a constant stream of them. From the station, I walked back to my hotel, took a shower, ate lunch, and took a nap.
My wife and I finished the day by meeting friends from Michigan who were also travelling in Australia.
Data:
Lap Time Lap Time Max Avg Min Dist min/mile
A 1. 0:12:45.6 0:12:45.6 169 155 137 1.006 12:01
A 2. 0:25:48.5 0:13:02.9 163 149 142 1.045 10:39
A 3. 0:37:55.7 0:12:07.2 162 152 141 1.060 8:59
A 4. 0:50:23.0 0:12:27.3 169 158 146 1.017 11:37
A 5. 1:02:29.5 0:12:06.5 172 160 147 0.937 10:56
A 6. 1:18:01.5 0:15:32.0 169 161 148 1.261 6:25
A 7. 1:29:26.6 0:11:25.1 171 163 148 0.997 10:52
A 8. 1:41:32.8 0:12:06.2 168 160 149 1.025 8:09
A 9. 1:52:59.0 0:11:26.2 174 163 150 1.020 10:43
A 10. 2:06:19.8 0:13:20.8 179 158 138 1.002 10:14
A 11. 2:18:41.3 0:12:21.5 170 162 152 0.989 9:42
A 12. 2:31:13.1 0:12:31.8 177 170 153 1.042 10:35
A 13. 2:42:16.0 0:11:02.9 191 173 161 1.001 9:37
Take some of these paces with a large grain of salt as there were times the GPS was acting up. Also, the peak heart-rate occurred in the final 1/10 of a mile.
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