Prize Half

Well the results of the 2013 Peterborough Y Half Marathon are up. See here I was a little slower than I hoped, but the conditions were pretty good and I won a draw prize. A book about improving your time. There was also a t-shirt on the prize table.. tough choice, but I already get a technical shirt for running (or rather for the money I paid to run).

Five toe discount

Today was my 5th Peterborough YMCA Half Marathon. It went reasonably well, this time, for most of the race, I followed a dude who was barefoot. I did manage to pass him in the last couple of kilometers. WHAT an accomplishment [<- This part must be said in the manner of Zoidberg]. Did I mention it was about -5 C when we started? It was super gorgeous and sunny though.

runtime error

Well, the results of the 2011 Peterborough YMCA Half are up and I did about how I expected to do. I've been working out, but not like last year. See results here. They also changed the route this year. More scenic and engaging than the old route, but not nearly as flat (especially at the 5k mark where there's a huge hill, that you must pass a second time on the return portion. Ow.). The best part is that I now have a decent enough data set. I made this graph, and another showing my positions in proportion to overall, category and gender placements, but due to some computer pain I accidentally lost the data and am too lazy right now to re-enter it because I ran a half-marathon today.

Smack run

Well, I ran the Peterborough-Y-Half again yesterday. Results here. I killed my previous times from 2009 and 2008. Also, Peter Bonk musta seen me training, because he didn't even show up.

Dreadmill

Well, I've been frequenting the gym quite a lot since Christmas. The Peterborough Y half-marathon is coming up pretty soon and I was in pretty bad shape after three weeks of doing nothing but stuffing my face. Amazingly I even gained some weight over those holidays, but since going to school I've already lost it again. Oh well. I guess if I ever want to realize my dream of being more weighty I'm going to have to put my laziness into high gear. Well, not all dreams come true.

Luckily

Well. I went to the gym for the first time since the Y half marathon today. I seemed to have injured my right knee. Luckily it is feeling better now.
Ha. That second sentence is a little ambiguous, as though I may have run the marathon today as opposed to three weeks ago. Just thought I had better clarify.

For the tee

Well the results of the 2009 Peterborough Vascular Health YMCA Half-Marathon are up. See them here. As you can see I did only very slightly better than last year. I managed to improve my pace by roughly one second. Just 94 more years of such an improvement and I'll win. My body doesn't seem as outraged as last time, and I did manage to beat Peter Bonk this time.

Golden Calf

Ouch, my calves kill. It's because I ran a half-marathon on Sunday. I suppose I did it for the T-shirt. I might have collected pledges for the charity, but I wasn't sure if I was going to chicken out at the last minute. But I didn't, and it was fun. It was a little disconcerting to try to keep the pace of a sixty year old woman I was chasing the whole race. There seems to be some sort of sense of accomplishment that is outweighing that feeling though. Check out the results: http://www.roadraceresults.com/display-race-results.php?racename=2008-peterborough-y-half

It's rediculous how fast that dude finished.