I got this pretty cool e-mail regarding my participation in the Frederick half marathon last weekend:
Congratulations on finishing the 6th Annual Frederick Running Festival on May 04, 2008. For your records, the weather at start time was Sunny, low 51 high 69 degrees F, wind N/NW 10-20 mph.
There were 141 finishers in the Male 35 to 39 age group and 1842 finishers in the 1/2 Marathon Division.
Your overall finish place was 553, your age group finish place was 71 and your gender finish place was 354. Your time was 1:56:36.55 giving you an overall pace of 8:54 per mile.
This was only my second half, so I don't know if summaries like this are normal, but I didn't get anything like this after my last half. I was shooting for an 8:57 per mile overall pace in this race so I was pleased to get confirmation that I beat that. Had I been familiar with the course, however, I would have shot for somewhere between 8:45 and 8:50 per mile. I think I can run this race faster.
In other news, I'm beginning to think I have a stress fracture in my foot. There has been off and on pain on the top of my right foot over the last several weeks but it usually went away either as I ran or after a day or two. This time the pain has persisted, and it's gotten worse as time's gone by. I haven't even done any running since Sunday, so that couldn't have been aggravating it. I'm wavering between going to the doctor and not because a doctor can only guess whether it's a stress fracture without getting into a bunch of advanced tests and such so I don't know if it's even worth it to see him.
I hate the idea of taking time off to heal now because I have another half marathon in Boston in a couple weeks (May 25) that I'm really looking forward to. But considering that trip is pre-paid and non-refundable I'll be completing that half on crutches if I have to. But the truth is that I was pretty stoked after my last half and want to keep up the momentum.
Oh, well. Injuries happen and you deal with them, I guess.
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