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[alexr_rwx]

Graham cola_fan and Alex oniugnip: ultimate victorious in the Atlanta Marathon 2K6!

Finishing time: 4:18. Speedy!

It was a beautiful day, totally perfect weather. All the volunteers were super-nice, but more importantly, Lauryn yourusername and Martin samarin saw us off and Laura laurapatt was waiting for us at the finish line, totally taking pictures! Aw, thanks guys :) Also, thanks to everybody else who was supportive!

We went out too fast :) We said "let's not go out too fast." We hit the first mile at a bit slower than 9-minute pace, taking our own advice... and then sped up 'til we hit the halfway point at a ridiculously too-quick 1:54. We were like "oh man, let's break 4 hours!" ... eh, you live, you learn :) And your legs seize up a bit in the process.

But still! First marathon, not bad! :)

Comments

[zip4096.livejournal.com]

Wow!! Congrats, Alex! :D

[jane-doe-9.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!

[gtv42.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I'm glad you didn't collapse and die (like the first guy).

[(Anonymous)]

Eh gads! Congrats!! I demand pictoors! ^_^

[cola-fan.livejournal.com]

wooT! couldn't have done it without you.

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Teamwork, hoorays! :)

(I'll come out to Nophest tomorrow to see Men Of Science, btw)

[cabrita.livejournal.com]

congratulations!

[lomonthang.livejournal.com]

Dude the way you handled that marathon reminded me of how the venerable Mike Tyson handled his business, and said regarding it: "My power is discombobulatingly devastating.. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."
You rock like granite!

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*laughs* It was more like the way the marathon handled us -- I could feel my muscle tissues collapsing as we went! That's a beautiful way to describe his business, though...

What might be ludicrous, however: is in early february (http://www.tallahasseemarathon.com/)...

[gtv42.livejournal.com]

Hey d00d check this out: http://www.ladyada.net/make/spokepov/index.html

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

That's pretty groovy :) A much awesomer application than the clocks people have done in the past. What would you put on your bike spokes?

[neuroticmonk.livejournal.com]

Yay Alex! :-D You rock!

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you Tim :) You rock too!

Also: welcome back to LJ! Haven't seen you around here for a while...

[lindseykuper]

Finishing time: 4:18. Speedy!

Wow! Fast! 23 minutes faster than my best time! And you finished together? That's awesome. Great job!

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much :) You helped inspire our marathon-ing activities!

At one point, you'd said that it must suck to not plan your walk breaks, but to have to take them because your legs just stop working at a certain point; empirically, it sucks pretty hard! There was a guy that was going at about our pace for maybe two thirds of the race: running slightly faster than us, but we'd pass him when he took his walk breaks. And he totally left us as we broke down towards the end.

So next time -- I think I'll make sure to keep a steadier pace at the beginning, maybe plan my breaks... and bring more packets of Sport Beans (http://jellybelly.com/msib21/PromoSites/SportsBeans/SportBeans.html) to eat along the way! (Sport Beans are delicious of a billion)

[lindseykuper]

I'm still unsure what the best strategy is for taking breaks. You should plan some breaks, but not too many! I think I planned too many breaks for San Juan. Early on, I took my breaks whether I felt like it or not, and then later I decided to only take them if I needed them, and ended up skipping several. I feel like I would have finished faster if I had skipped one or two of those early breaks. But who knows?

Anyway, congratulations! Any chance you'd travel to the Pacific Northwest for a road race of some kind?

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*nods* On the other hand, taking a break before you need it might just get you through... a stitch in time, preventing one in your side? Not too many breaks is definitely good advice!

(The best option, I think, is just to be so hard that you can keep running the whole way :) )

That could be interesting, doing a race in your neighborhood sometime -- let me know when there's an awesome one coming up?

[reality-calls.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazing!  So you really did it, eh?  That's just a great accomplishment.  I thought I'd have a ton of stuff to say about it, but I find that words fail me.  What praise could I possibly type that would not pale in comparison to the fact that you just completed a marathon!

I want to be just like you some day, at least in the whole "completing a marathon" aspect.

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