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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! :)
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Finishing time: 4:18. Speedy!
It was a beautiful day, totally perfect weather. All the volunteers were super-nice, but more importantly, Lauryn
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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! :)
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I'm glad you didn't collapse and die (like the first guy).
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(Anonymous) 2006-11-23 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
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You rock like granite!
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What might be ludicrous, however: is in early february (http://www.tallahasseemarathon.com/)...
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(I'll come out to Nophest tomorrow to see Men Of Science, btw)
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Also: welcome back to LJ! Haven't seen you around here for a while...
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Wow! Fast! 23 minutes faster than my best time! And you finished together? That's awesome. Great job!
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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)
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Anyway, congratulations! Any chance you'd travel to the Pacific Northwest for a road race of some kind?
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I want to be just like you some day, at least in the whole "completing a marathon" aspect.
"Live from the People's Republic"
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(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?