{"id":210,"date":"2012-10-11T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2016-11-27T04:47:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T04:47:19","slug":"portland-marathon-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/portland-marathon-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Marathon 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend I flew to Oregon run the Portland Marathon. My friend Laura was also running the race and we both had a great time.\u00a0The course started downtown and looped up over the St. Johns bridge and then back down the east side and over the Broadway bridge.\u00a0My goal time was 4:30 but I finished the race in 4:55:39 tag time (5:09:16 gun) at a pace of 11:17.<\/p>\n

I fell apart in the second half of the race, possibly because I came out too hard in the start<\/del> massively undertrained in September (due to the flu). My halfway split was 2:03:18 and I could tell I was running out of energy at that point. I tried to choke down as many gummy bears and sweet drinks as I could at the stations but still lost an hour in the second half. I managed to keep running through to the finish but the last five miles were really slow.<\/p>\n

Splits:
\n5K \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 28:07
\n10K \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 58:11
\n8.9mi \u00a0 1:22:57
\nHalf \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02:03:18
\n17.5mi \u00a02:55:32
\n21.1mi \u00a03:43:06
\n26.2mi 4:55:39<\/p>\n

Results:<\/p>\n