Miles to go …

I completed Kaiser Permanente 1/2 marathon earlier today and the statistics are:

I’m a happy runner to beat my best time of 8:04 in Silicon Valley 2008.

The top-5 finishers are:

I thoroughly enjoyed the very well organized race. There were close to 9000 runners (the biggest so far in race’s history of 26 years) with over 6000 1/2 marathon runners (record number as well). The parking lots were packed and so it took a while to find an empty spot. But after that every thing was seamless – boarding the shuttles, pre-race warm up, mile markers, post-race celebration, flexibility screening, and every thing else. And the weather certainly cooperated a lot with beautiful sun shining early in the race. I was certainly over dressed so had to lug my jacket/gloves with me. Loved the fact that somebody was announcing the minutes past since guntime at each mile marker – very personal and useful in my opinion!

Here are couple of possible improvements:

• Pace groups were very poorly planned. Even though there were markers for 5, 6 ad 7 min pace at start line but there certainly were some 10 minuters over there. It easily took a mile to filter through them. I like the way waves are planned in runsfm.com.
• No race medal I don’t mind getting charged a few extra dollars but give me a race medal, c’mon please!

I’d love to run this race again next year!

And finally here are some pictures:

And you can certainly watch tweets at twitter.com/arungupta for more pictures.

Here are my timings so far:

It seems running 31 days (out of 32 so far) in 2009 is helping

Technorati: running marathon results kaiser sanfrancisco

1. Running Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Half Marathon
2. Completed San Francisco Marathon 2007
3. San Francisco Half Marathon 2008 Completed
4. San Francisco 1/2 Marathon – 2010 Results
5. Completed my first marathon