Oh where to start, it was a spectacular day for me:) I got a new pair of shoes that I decided to wear in the marathon because I was feeling the miles in my old ones in my back and sciatic. This turned out to be a good thing and had no problems what so ever from it. I got a good night sleep and didn't really feel excited or nervous at the start. I had decided before hand that I would go out conservative and run by how I felt and not pay attention to splits esp. during veyo and dameron valley. Now usually this marathon seems like the uphills never stop but today they seemed like little bumps and the downhill I felt like I was flying. It was surreal. I think I had a permagrin on my face, I felt fabulous for most of the marathon. Used a glu flask and started taking it around 6 and then every 4 or 5 miles I love it. Also took two IB and sports legs about an hour before. Ate a banana and whole wheat PB and honey sandwich along with my drink before and added the prolytes to my water and my gu flask. this all seemed to work just great. 1-7:38 2-7:45 meet up with Kent and Kristine and ran with them for a while 3-7:14 still just running easy and not breathing hard at all 4-7:10 5-7:12 (36:59) 6-7:17 potty stop 7-7:02 8-8:14 Feeling really good but this is the determining factor for me, how I feel through this section and it usually zaps me. So I really monitored myself and made sure I wasn't breathing hard. I didn't once look at my watch either through this next uphill section. Was surprised to look back and see I ran up veyo this fast. I got to the top and recovered fast and felt good but still want to run within myself through Dameron valley. I lost Kent and Chrisine here and never really ran with anyone after this. Passed a lot of people though. That felt great. Started to feel my sciatic but never really bothered me that much. 9-7:45 10-7:37 (1:14:54) 11-7:59 12-7:34 At this point I felt like I was having an out of body experience, almost like something was pushing me and saying it is time to go. So I did and felt so super duper spectacular. 13-7:05 (1:37:32) I hit the half way at a high 1:38 and was not worried at all. Passing lot of people wow this is awesome. 14-7:06 15-6:39 I dropped my gu flask and had to stop and go back to get it, but didn't slow me down to much just made me mad. 16-6:32 (1:57:49) all the miles where just flying by and at this point I was thinking only a 10 miler left and I felt great. 17-6:54 18-7:01 19-7:29 Winchester hills didn't feel to bad on these, I usually feel aweful and expected to feel worse 20-7:08 (2:26:21) 21-6:42 22-7:24 I did feel the hill in this mile but felt like I still was recovering nicely 23-7:19 (2:47:46) I got a side stitch in this mile and was pretty mad because I really was feeling good and thought I could slip in under a 3:10. I concentrated on my breathing and it went away about a half mile later but I couldn't recover my pace at that point. 24-7:24 25-7:38 (3:02:48) Starting to have a gradual break down. 26-7:55 Trying not to fall apart completely. .2-2:00 Was very pleased I felt so good throughout the race and finally got below that 3:15 mark and get a pr with only 11 week of training. Now for a break!
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