I finished a Marathon! It certainly wasn’t pretty but I finished and isn’t that 90% of the battle? Ok not really, 90% of the battle was the last six miles. Fuck those last six miles were one of the toughest things I’ve ever done and took my perfectly reasonable pace and destroyed it. I did the first 19-20 miles at in 3:10 and the last 6ish in 1:50 which is just ungodly slow. Not my normal 6 mile pace is 51:30… The views were pretty but there was just a lot of stop start walk/run/stumbling. It was the damnedess thing right before I hit my walls my quads got this odd tingly sensation and then started to completely lock up. It was infuriating because I started losing the people I kept pace with who were going at a decent clip, to being passed by an army of Grandma’s. I swore I would never do a Marathon again but this time was just soooo sub par I know I could beat it if I trained a bit better. Ughhhhhh… I have the Rock N Roll half coming up in a month and hoping to improve my PR to 1:55 or less. I think its definitely in the realm of possibility especially with out fit I feel right now.
