Running a race with Power2Run
Today I ran the Christmas Relay 4.5 mile run around Lake Merced. I've been a little out of shape and was asked to anchor the B relay for the Excelsiors running team. My goal was to pace myself as evenly as possible over the terrain. For those of you unfamiliar with the course the first 1/2-1 mile ascends a hill of around 50 feet then drops down into the second mile. My Power splits were as follows.... You can quickly see I started the race up the first hill a little enthusiastically running 318 Watts which is 12 watts higher than the race average 306 Watts. You can see down the hill I backed off to a more realistic 308 Watts and settled into that pace for another mile or two. Running with Power helped a great deal here by smoothing out my efforts of the slight rollers on the course. The first mile enthusiasm probably cost me a few watts in mile 4 when you see I dropped my pace to an average of 294 Watts. Then with the finish line in sight I powered up the last hi...