Zombie Run

Last weekend Kari and I participated in the Zombie run here in Anchorage. Kari ran the 1/2 marathon with her friend and co-worker Kathy. Kari hadn't really put in the training for this one like the other one she did, but she had experience on her side this time. The course was kind of a killer because it had a major hill the whole last mile. Her race started at 10am and ran from goose lake to kincaid park. Kari was about 15min slower this race but it was a lot harder, colder, and she wasn't as prepared so really she did tons better.

I ran the 50k with my friend Mike. I was tricked into this one. I share an office with Mike and one day we were working and he asks "hey Jared, what's your date of birth?" so I tell him, then after a few moments I say hey why'd you want my DOB, and he say's "I just entered you to be my partner in a 50k in 10weeks. What happened is that his original partner got hurt and couldn't run and for this run you have to run with a partner for the first 1/2 marathon (safety concerns for the dark and animals). Ok...so i started training.

The run was nice and the first part was exceptionally slow. Mike had a plan to run for 25 min then walk for 5. This ended up putting our pace just under 10min per mile. After I reached mile 18 with Mike and I realized I only had a half marathon left so I opened up and averaged around 7min pace the rest of the way and 6:45 pace the last 5 miles. Needless to say I was able to finish really strong, passed a bunch of people on the hills and dropped a couple of 6min miles around mile 29 and 30. It sure felt good to be able to run that distance and feel that great at the end. I took 6th place time of 4hrs 30 min... I think I should run a marathon for time sometime soon, I'd like to see if I could get under 3:20 and closer to 3:10 (which is my Boston Qualification time)

anyhow laters.