As for the auto-stop feature, it is meant for circumstances like waiting to cross the street so that your runtime is not dinged for waiting for a traffic light. I like it and I leave it on, and for this weekend it was illustrative for how much time I spent taking pictures or bathroom breaks.
Oh yes I know what it's for. I used to use it like that, too, and then I did the January half in 2014 while dreadfully sick and 100% thought I was doing amazing (for being that sick), but I...was not. I was estimating my time all wrong because it was autopausing and I'd forgotten about it.
Even when not sick I (a math minor and someone currently getting an accounting degree) canNOT do math while running or runwalking. After that event my autopause went off and never came back on.
Sounds like you do better with it.
I have white stuff on my running clothes that I’m pretty sure is salt that I must have sweated out. Is that even possible?
Yes.
Next time I'll carry water with me, and maybe something salty. This was my first marathon and I've got a lot to learn, so it's a good thing I have this community!
I saw your update that you're sick. Being smacked down by something like near heat exhaustion definitely slams down your immune system, so I'm not surprised you are sick. (been there done that well before 2020)
Anyway, the time to figure it out will be during your next training cycle. Get lots of options and use them during your long runs to see how you deal with them and if they help you.
I carried wireless pumps, Elvie, in a camelbak with no bladder and walked with them in for 15mins. I dumped due to the hot weather.
You are a rock star and a goddess all wrapped up in one amazing person.
I refuse to debate the runners vs. walkers issue because it is what it is and I’ve been hearing the same arguments since 2012. PoT requirements have been all over the place in the last 10 years and have never made a difference in my rDrace experience.
Yep.
They'll have it this way this year and by 2024 it'll be different and no one will know until after the event.
I will say this: I was run-walking in what I’d guess was the back of the middle of the pack during the full and there were times when the entire right side of the course was full of people running: there was no safe way for me to do a walk internal on the right. Sometimes you just have to look at what’s going on in the moment you’re in and do what’s safest, which might not be the way it’s “supposed” to be. Sometimes that means walking on the left, or running an interval a little longer than planned until you reach a safer spot to walk, or walking through a run interval if there’s no safe spot to run at that moment. In an event with so many people packed so tightly together in spots, we all just need to exercise a little patience and be prepared to adjust as needed.
Absolutely positively. Sometimes you just come across weird things and have to change it up. Hopefully we can also realize that the people in front of us came across osmething weird just before we showed up and what we see is how THEY dealt with it.
Though I'll still never understand or really forgive the fast runner who went into the foliage (2013 tower of terror) on the gravel path and jumped out in front of my from my RIGHT, when there was room on the left. Not sure what they were doing or why they thought they had to do it, but...they shouldn't have done it. There was zero room to my right on the path, and room to the side, and behind me on my left that they could have utilized.
And of course not only does Galloway do and teach run/walk, but he qualified for Boston doing so...not all run/walkers are slow. (I know you know that PrincessV, but others might not)
