Mississauga Marathon
Sunday, May 16, 2004
 

Race report from Richard...
Date: Sun May 16, 2004
Subject: Mississauga Half Marathon
 

The Mississauga Half marathon is in the bag. First of all thanks to Sanjay for not running today: the weather was great ;-) For my races in general I start out slow and people pass me. Then at the end I speed up and start to pass people. Today I ended up 'normal'. The first 14K went pretty smooth and my average speed was about 10-15 seconds faster under my goal of 5:43 min/km. But the last 7K were tough. The course kinda fooled me. Even though I knew there were quite some kilometres to go, it felt that I was close to the finish, looking anxiously for the finish line... I had to take extra walking breaks. Nevertheless looking back I didn't loose too much time and I managed to complete my goal of breaking 2 hours. My chip time was 1:57:20 and I even made it in the top 50 percent. Something that doesn't happen regularly. It was strange for me to finish a race with so many difficulties, but I set a personal record and as I said I manage to accomplish my goal which I something I am very pleased about. About the marathon itself: it was the first Mississauga Marathon and there were some glitches. The course itself was beautiful and besides a hill that I pass in my 'good phase', you start at a higher elevation than where you finish. The most annoying part was the finish area. No cars were allowed to park there and there were shuttle buses. Catherine tried to take one but she gave up after 15 minutes. She decided to drive closer to the finish area and walk from there, which turned out in a 15-20 minutes walk which is of course not great when you just run a race. Good thing there was a ice cream truck halfway :-) I have attached a map of the course for your viewing pleasure (had to wear my GPS of course.. :-) That's all folks. Richard Garmin Forerunner GPS route map of the Mississauga Half-Marathon

 

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