Sun Run 2010 results
1 hour, 1 minute and 56 seconds. Yuck! Old age is hitting me! Not happy with the horrible run time!
Actually, when finishing down the finish line, I thought I broke an hour. I did not bring my stopwatch so I had no idea of knowing whether I was on a decent pace or not. It did feel like a good run. I think where I lost the most amount of time was going up the hill to the Burrard Street Bridge and also up the Cambie street bridge, but it didn’t feel like THAT much time was lost. I also didn’t feel like I lost much time weaving through the crowds – the congestion in the first 3km was there, but it was always the case with the previous years of running as well.
I arrived at around 9:45am. Taking the Canada Line is such a breeze.
I consciously took it “light” at the beginning, trying not to burn myself out too quickly. Going down the hill on Georgia street, I tried to “glide” as much as possible and use the downhill slope to minimize energy consumption. I pretended I was a bowling ball rolling down hill. After the downhill jog, I ran the pace of the crowd on the left hand side, making some advances through people as necessary, but it was not a hugely fast pace.
I actually felt quite good after reaching the peak of the Burrard Street bridge, and “glided” down again, and ran most of the way down and ran straight until reaching the base of the Cambie Street bridge. I guess my running stride was not very lengthy which lead to the long run-time. For next year, I think I have to work on improving the length of my stride (in addition to losing 20 pounds of mass which would make it easier for my legs to propel my body forward).
I discovered a new phenomenon by observing other people – text messaging while running. Those people are about as dangerous as those text messaging on their blackberries while driving.
This year had a couple changes from the previous year – it was a couple weeks later in May because of the Olympics. Although today was a colder day than average for this time of the year, I think it was an improvement. The other big change is that instead of meeting up in BC Place, they have used the parking lot next to BC Place near the waterfront to put tents and the food and stuff. They had the usual assortment of foods, and I was pleased to see that Island Farms had their chocolate milk very well stocked. They were also giving out samples of Red Bull (which I don’t drink and gave to some homeless guy near BC Place) and the usual bananas and oranges. Finally, they had a stand that was giving out free tubs of protein shake powder, but knowing how disgusting that stuff tastes, I passed even though the lineup for that booth was massive.
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