{"id":618,"date":"2016-11-28T23:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2016-11-29T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T16:42:19","slug":"turkey-trot16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/turkey-trot16\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Trot’16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As usual, Silicon Valley Turkey Trot is run on a flat course. With 25000+ runners, it is a very large but a well-managed race (in fact, it is the largest local running event). This remains a very much a fun race for me.
\nIt was also nice to PR with 51:21 (7 minutes off from my last best 10-k race time).<\/p>\n

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Pre-Race<\/span><\/b>:<\/h3>\n

Going into this race, I had very good Half Marathon<\/a> performance to build upon. In addition, I had few very good quality practice runs \u2013 nice combination of easy and tempo runs.<\/p>\n

Finally, I had started to experiment (barely scratched surface, more like\u2026) with a heart rate monitor. I am still working on detailed feedback on the HRM so more about it upcoming posts.<\/p>\n

Anyway, pre-race nutrition was a banana and a cup of tea 45 minutes prior to the race \u2013 this proved adequate.<\/p>\n

As an aside, I managed to directly (and indirectly) encourage atleast 4\u00a0 friends\/co-workers to join this event \u2013 all four showed up and finished their races. I consider this as a large achievement for myself!!<\/p>\n

So all in all, I was looking forward to racing this event but also wanted to enjoy the overall atmosphere and my friend\u2019s first races . I was glad I was able to do both.<\/p>\n

The Race<\/span>:<\/b><\/p>\n

I started kind of easy but maintained a conservative, even-pace method throughout the course. This proved beneficial because I was able to maintain good pace, consistent heart-rate and even cadence throughout.Here are my splits<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Mile Marker<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Time<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Pace<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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4<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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33:05<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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8:17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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5.1<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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41:50<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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8:13<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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6.1<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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51:21<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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8:16<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The average cadence was 171 steps\/minute<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>The average heart rate was also 170 \u00a0bpm<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Post Race:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Photo sessions, meeting runners from previous races and nice breakfast snacks provided courtesy of my company J<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheerio!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, Silicon Valley Turkey Trot is run on a flat course. With 25000+ runners, it is a very large but a well-managed race (in fact, it is the largest local running event). This remains a very much a fun race for me. It was also nice to PR with 51:21 (7 minutes off from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-rpts","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}