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I ran a half marathon yesterday

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Yesterday I ran the Super Jock 'n Jill Half Marathon. 13.1 miles in 1:43:20, or a pace of 7:53 per mile. I was shooting for a 1:45:00 (8:00 per mile) and I beat that, in spite of it being quite sunny and warm (nice day yes, but warmer weather drains you faster as a runner) and in spite of undertraining the past 10 days due to a sore Achilles tendon. I finished 331 out of 1193 total runners. Today I have stiff quads and calves, but all in all I feel great.

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Published Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:28 PM by rgreen_msft
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Sushant Bhatia said:

What kind of training regime do you use?
September 7, 2004 8:43 PM
 

Louis Parks said:

I'm not a VB.NET and I'm too lazy to look this up myself...

Please explain what the definition of the type ShamelessSelfPromotion needs to be for the statement

Dim whatAboutMe as ShamelessSelfPromotion = True

to be syntactically correct.
September 7, 2004 9:52 PM
 

Armand du Plessis said:

Well done!!! Running leaves one feeling great! Love it.

PS. Now's a good time to increase the distance and train for next year's Comrades ;-)

http://www.comrades.com/
September 8, 2004 2:17 AM
 

Julie Lerman said:

good for you!! Geeze you can start a VBTeam Marathon now...who else besides you and Jay? :-)
September 8, 2004 8:08 AM
 

Jackie Goldstein said:

Pretty impressive Robert ! When can we expect to see you and Jay Roxe going head to head with each other ?!
September 8, 2004 9:38 AM
 

Simon Geering said:

Yep always remember to clean up your variables.

Seriously though, congratulations.
September 8, 2004 12:12 PM
 

Robert Green said:

Sushant, there are half marathon training schedules at a bunch of Web sites. The one I used is at http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_0/133.shtml. Following a schedule was tremendously helpful. I just did what it said on the day it said to do it and I got stronger and stronger every week. I highly recommend it.
September 8, 2004 1:06 PM
 

Robert Green said:

I think I will stick with half marathons. On Monday, I was really tired at the 11 mile mark, but I only had 2 more miles to go. If you can run 11 you can finish the 13.1.

Now, imagine this is a marathon. At the 11 mile mark you still have 15 to go. No thanks!!!
September 8, 2004 1:09 PM
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