Race Report

011 – Gary’s New Orleans Marathon Recap

by GaryD

Listen to the podcast here or go to itunes store and search for Endurance Base Camp. This podcast is a recap and race report of my attempt to run a sub 3 hour marathon at the New Orleans Rock-n-Roll Marathon. I discuss how things felt when the feeling of doing great quickly turned to not-so-great. [...]

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Jessica King’s Lexington Half Marathon Race Report (3/28/10)

by GaryD

[note]: Jessica originally posted this report on her tumblr blog, you can go here to find it. [end note] Well, I will finally write down my thoughts regarding the Lexington Half before I forget it all. Forgetting it is not that likely though. I have been training for this half since mid December. On every [...]

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Lexington Half Marathon Race Report

by Nikki Ditsch

Image Courtesy of Peter v Cook I blame the Kentucky men’s basketball team for my not running a 1:39 at the half marathon. So UK played West Virginia in the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament the night before the half and LOST! Well, apparently this upset me so much that I didn’t fall asleep [...]

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Elissa Roycraft’s Mardi Gras Half Marathon Race Report (2/28/10)

by GaryD

Here is another race report that I got after our team went to New Orleans to do the Mardi Gras Rock-N-Roll Marathon and Half Marathon.  Here’s Elissa’s break down: ++++ I ran the New Orleans half and was pleasantly surprised by my results. My goal time was 1:40, which would be my PR by almost [...]

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Saori Hanaki-Martin’s Mardi Gras Marathon Race Report (2/28/10)

by GaryD

Mardi Gras Marathon (February 28, 2010) Race Report (Sorry – it’s long! I got too excited!!) The fun began as we (Coach Gary, Elissa, Julia, Kristin and I) drove off Lexington in the early Friday morning. It was a long, 12-hour drive to Louisiana, but we talked the entire way without any music or audio [...]

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Kristin Harvey : 2009 Marine Corp Marathon Race Report

by GaryD

Kristin trained with the Endurance Base Camp group for the 2008 Chicago Marathon and just missed her goal of qualifying for Boston.  After training with us this past summer to complete her first Half Ironman Distance Race (Muncie Endurathon), she decided to get back to that Boston Marathon goal. Below is her race report discussing [...]

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Ironman Louisville Race Report

by Nikki Ditsch

What a weekend!  Since we live in Lexington and didn’t want to pay another $200 a night at the Seelbach, Gary and I decided to drive up on Friday to check in, and drive back Friday night.  We saved money, but it led to a stressful Saturday morning for me. I didn’t get to the [...]

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Ironman Louisville 2009 Race Report

by Gary Ditsch

Here are the basic stats: Overall Place: 204 / 2353 Age Group Place: 36 / 266 Overall Time: 10:42:15 Swim Overall Place: 579 Swim Time: 1:15:17 Swim Pace / 100 Meter: 1:57 Bike Overall Place: 592 Bike Time: 5:51:27 Bike Pace mph: 19.1 Run Overall Place: 84 Run Time: 3:27:10 Run Pace min/mile: 7:55 Pre [...]

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