We just ran the San Jose Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon this morning and the results are already online:
Place Overall: 2664/8787
Women: 746/4802
Age Group: 126/831
AgeGrade: 56.90%
Place: 1925
FINISH: 1:59:20 | pace: 9:07
5k: 26:38 | pace: 8:35
10K: 54:20 | pace: 8:45
10Mile: 1:29:41 | pace: 8:59
Chip Time: 1:59:20
Gun Time: 2:02:05
Weather was perfect, felt good until about mile 5 when my knee started buggin’ me. Stayed ahead of the 2:00 pace-marker until about mile 8 when a stop at the water station dropped me behind. I had nothing left at the finish line — couldn’t sprint (as I like to do!) across the finish line. Couldn’t even muster up enough to make it before 2:02 blinked by on the clock!
Still, this year’s time was an improvement over last year’s time and my age-grade apparently improved. Small things!
I am terribly sore tonight, though, and my knee is back to hurting a lot. Will hope I can rehabilitate it before the Silicon Valley half in 3 weeks. Both Tom and I are also hoping to be a bit more vigilant about training (the last run he did was an astonishing 4 weeks ago — astonishing that he could finish this run, I mean!) and the last time I ran was last week…).