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MARCH 2008
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RACE REPORT – SAN DIEGUITO HALF MARATHON by Rachel Richards 2/10/08 hilly course. Lots and lots of hills. However, the week before, a 16-mile long run at base Prelude: It had been a long, long time since I had pace felt great. Maybe I could do a 13.1-mile gone “fast” in a half-marathon. I had been tempo run at a higher intensity for San unable to touch my PR, set in my very first Dieguito. Did I just say 13.1-mile tempo run? half-marathon (Silicon Valley Half Marathon, I must be crazy. Wednesday before the race, I woke up with 2003), which I had run with a strained hip aches, chills, and a fever. Perfect timing. I abductor. Embarrassing. True, I had been working on my base and had been focusing on downgraded my race goal for San Dieguito to my limiters, the swim and the bike. But saying a training run. After all, this was not an “A” goodbye to speed was so hard. Frustrated, race. It really was just a training run for IM-AZ, only 9 weeks I decided to try a new away now (gulp!). I experiment: if running rested most of the week was my strength, maybe it to recover from the wouldn’t require much nasty bug. Saturday, I effort to get some speed went for an “easy” 50 back. To test my new mile bike ride at a conhypothesis, I started servative pace. Since adding weekly speed work when did a 50 mile ride into my program. become easy? The virus After 6 weeks of speed had taken its toll, and work, I was excited about my body informed me, the San Dieguito Half loud and clear, on every Marathon. Delusions of hill. I knew San grandeur of a speedy halfDieguito would now be marathon danced in my just a training run. But head like sugarplum a voice nagged at the fairies until I was continued page 3 informed of the difficult, “It gives you wings.”