Toast, Banana, Powerade for breakfast, then took the bus to the start with my brother and sister and their spouses. I loved the warmer temps at the start it made for a much more comfortable wait and race start. My training has been as minimal or less that in previous years. I have done very little speed or tempo stuff lately but I did manage to get some really decent long runs in. The goal as usual was to shoot for sub 3:00hr or a PR. 1st 13 miles 7.04-6.53-6.50-6.39-7.01-6.34-6.37-7.35-7.09-6.54-7.04-7.19-6.43 (1:30:28) 2nd 13 miles 6.43-6.25-6.33-6.48-6.51-7.19-7.01-6.42-7.11-6.51-6.56-7.12-6.59 (3:00:07) Last .22 :22 Total time of (3:01:29) I ran the second half faster.
First half was a little slower than last year bu the big difference was that I kept hitting good splits til the end. I remember thinking at mile 2 that my legs already felt tired and with about 10 miles to go I was wondering how I was going to finish strong. Just took it a mile at a time. The whole second half it felt like I was threatening a stomach cramp(been a big problem in the past) but was able to focus on breathing etc to stave it off. Never touched any GU this year, just gatorade and water at most aid stations. Had to stop and go pee at mile 2 and somewhere around mile 10 so I was getting plenty of fluids. The heat was really a moot issue. Nice cloud cover most of the way. I ran a PR and I think I figured out a few things for future reference. Had a lot of fun and look forward to next year.
Soreness is pretty minimal. I was more sore after my Half Marathon 2 weeks ago. Congrats to everyone, especially my 2 brothers, Sister, Sister in law and brother in law. They all finished on a day when there were a lot of DNF's. Once again my brother Ben ran with only like a 120 miles of total training this year. He said he could have went 10 more miles past the finish. I think that he needs to do ultras. He could probably run all day at 10:00 pace.
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