写作练习：The Tyler Rose Half Marathon

Today I finished the Tyler Rose Half Marathon in less than two hours. Today's event is the first of my Four Seaons Half Marathon Challenge. The course is a tough one: there are a lot of hills or up and down along the way, and the surface for most part of the course is not so runner friendly. I finished in less than two hours anyway. My primary target was to break my 1:50 PR (personal record, December 2010), and if not, the backup target was 2 hours. I followed the 1:50 pace leader for first half of the course. Pace leaders are veteran runners who run at a certain pace so that they finish the full course in a certain time. They hold a sign indicating their pace during the race and pople who want to run at a certain pace can just follow the sign. At about the ninth mile, I started to walk a little bit. For some reason, my shoulder joint started to hurt, and I could barely move my arms. Maybe it was due to the fact that I only stretched my legs but not my arms and shoulder before the race or maybe I was being cursed by someone at that moment. However, I was ahead of the 2 hour pace leader all the way and sprinted for the last 0.1 miles.

Everyone who finished today's running course (13.1 miles) received a medal like the one shown below.






Looking back, I would do better if I had more training, espcially hill training. I had a coule months of running break this summer and decided to participate in the event late last month. I would have not signed up for this event if four of my colleagues had not signed up for the event. I am sure I will do better for the rest of the challenge events. Please stay tuned. :-)

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• Congratulations! -北京二号- ♀ (42 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 15:36:41

• 问好二姐。多谢鼓励！ -EnLearner- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 15:50:57

• 愚公，那时谁cursed的你呀？我要好好谢谢他！祝你下次闯过两小时大关！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 15:52:31

• 回复：愚公，那时谁cursed的你呀？我要好好谢谢他！祝你下次闯过两小时大关！ -EnLearner- ♀ (90 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 16:23:27

• 哎呀，怎么好心总是没好报呢？我替那个人喊冤啊。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 18:31:10

• 破坏军心，影响士气，该当何罪？ -EnLearner- ♀ (97 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 21:19:52

• haha. 这个小美风，拿她没办法。 -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 21:57:35

• 治病救人，防患未燃啊。 -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 23:18:43

• Horse pulled pine...congrts! -走马读人- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 18:20:03

• Thank you, Horse! -EnLearner- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 18:33:20

• success成功= conquer, subjugate 征服 -走马读人- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 19:26:19

• To succeed, one only needs a horse. :-) -EnLearner- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 21:12:09

• 佩服! 我现在连山都懒得爬了. -ntotl- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 20:54:41

• 谢谢！都老朽了，在不锻练不行啊。 -EnLearner- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 21:16:35

• Congrations！愚公！ -非文学青年- ♀ (3175 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 22:16:59

• rearrange of-> rearrange -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 22:19:35

• I mean Congrats! haha, typo 太多，呵呵。 -非文学青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 22:28:22

• Thank you, professor! -EnLearner- ♀ (280 bytes) () 10/09/2011 postreply 22:32:29

• Congratulation!!! YuGong. -NewVoice- ♀ (850 bytes) () 10/10/2011 postreply 07:33:33

• Thank you, NewVoice! -EnLearner- ♀ (414 bytes) () 10/10/2011 postreply 19:01:28

• Congratulations! Tuned. -冲浪潜水员- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/10/2011 postreply 09:27:56

• Thank you! -EnLearner- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/10/2011 postreply 19:03:53

• 祝贺祝贺！这周休息还是马不停蹄接着练啊？ -cha-cha- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/10/2011 postreply 17:56:43

• 多谢多谢！周三就可接着练了。 -EnLearner- ♀ (0 bytes) () 10/10/2011 postreply 19:06:42