Juli's Race Report

So this race report is by Ben since Juli refuses to do one. Apparently, she does not believe that it is important to reflect, internalize, and learn from a racing experience. So I will do it for her. I think her coach needs to have yet another futile talk with her.

Here are Juli's 5K splits up to 40K:
21:50
21:59
21:43
22:21
22:21
23:18
23:56
23:56

So Juli's first 13.1 miles were run at a blistering 7:04 min/mile pace in 1:32:41! Her second 13.1 miles were run in 1:39:09 at a 7:34 min/mile pace. Her time was 3:11:50, a 7:19 min/mile average and good for 295 out of 10,000 women and 248 out of 5200 women in her age group! A PR by over 1o minutes as well!

I know that Juli's race plan was to go out as fast as possible and to see how long she could hold it. So her plan was executed well. She was also sick for the race and having some respiratory pain that I know slowed her down in the second half. (I got her an appointment with our PA who prescribed her an albuterol inhaler that was helping with her training runs, but in all the Boston excitement she forgot to take it on the race morning!). She and her friend Jenny were also late getting to the corrals, so instead of taking off with corral 3 of wave 2 (people who were much too slow for her to begin with) she was running with the last corral of wave 2 (people who were much, much to slow for her). This is hard because with the narrow streets of Hopkinton, you are shoulder to shoulder with thousands of people for a few miles.

I don't know whether it was the breathing or the hills in the second half that slowed her more (I suspect in was the former), but she had a great race and she is already planning an encore performance!

If you want to know the fun details of Juli's race (how she was feeling at different points in the race, her obstacles during the race, triumphs, favorite sights and memoris, etc) you will just have to ask her because she won't write them down for us.