Boilermaker 15k 2009

Went to Utica yesterday and stayed with someone from RIT so I could run the Boilermaker 15k again this year (that's 9.3 miles for you imperial systemites). The schedule ended up going kind of like this:

6 AM - get up, eat sorta stretch a little
7 AM - Leave for the start line
Stand in the bathroom line for 25 minutes
8 AM - Start running
9 AM ish - Finish running
9:30 AM - Start drinking free beer
10:30 AM Moderately intoxicated
Noon - Leave for CT
1:30 PM - Sober again
3:30 PM - Hangover
7:00 PM - Perfectly fine

So I now can tell you from experience that it's pretty weird to be drunk in the morning, but somewhat convenient since you can recover all in one day without losing all that much productivity. Also, somehow it doesn't seem to affect me quite so much after running. Either way, I don't really plan on doing that again, but it was sorta fun once.

In other news, my 15K time last year for Boilermaker was 76 minutes according to my watch. At Spring Forward this year (truthfully a harder course), I dropped that to about 70 minutes although I felt pretty bad at the end of that race. My goal this time was to finish in the top ten percent of the field. I ended up dropping TEN minutes compared to my time last year, and landed at 65 minutes! By chip time, it was 891st out of 10583, solidly in the top ten percent. Somehow.

This seems like a good place to record information, so for personal reference almost more than anything, here are my mile splits from my watch before I reset it tomorrow:
1 - 7:20
2 - 7:09
3 - 7:15
4 - 7:34 (uphill)
5 - 6:32 (downhill)
6 - 6:57
7 - 7:28
8 - 6:47
9 - 7:00
last 0.3 miles - 1:51

And of course the 60 or so ounces of beer more than made up for the energy expended with that whole running business. Umm, ooops.