{"id":656,"date":"2011-06-20T08:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T12:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2011-07-17T20:36:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T00:36:40","slug":"mount-washington-in-under-2-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/20\/mount-washington-in-under-2-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Washington in Under 2 Hours!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran Mount Washington last year and finished in just under 2:05, so my goal for this year was to try to break 2 hours. I really didn’t think I was going to be able to do it, as I entered the race under-trained and overweight. In fact, I told Jodi, who was waiting for me at the summit, not to worry if it took me 2:15 or 2:30 to finish, as I figured I was going to end up walking almost the whole thing.<\/p>\n

But the weather was a lot cooler than last year. I think that was the difference. I think my ratio of running to walking was about the same as last year, but I tried to take slightly shorter strides while walking, at a higher turnover. When I got near the top I was madly doing calculations in my head trying to figure out if I had a chance to come in under 2 hours. For the life of me I couldn’t remember the exact course distance, so wasn’t sure exactly how much further I had to go. On the last section that was at a shallow enough grade, I forced myself to run even though both calves were cramping and starting to spasm on me. Finally, I could hear the spectators at the finish and knew I had one last curve, then The Wall — 21% grade — up to the finish. I looked at my watch and I was within about half a minute of 2 hours. Pushing as hard as I could, I crossed the line and stopped my watch at 1:59:56. Phew! Four seconds to spare!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this race does not use a timing mat at the start, only at the finish. My official race time is gun time, which was 2:00:22. The 26 second difference is the time from when the gun went off until I actually reached the start line. I am quite disappointed that my official time isn’t under 2 hours.<\/p>\n

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I ran Mount Washington last year and finished in just under 2:05, so my goal for this year was to try to break 2 hours. I really didn’t think I was going to be able to do it, as I entered the race under-trained and overweight. In fact, I told Jodi, who was waiting for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/allenf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}