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Ran my first marathon yesterday
This morning I'm somewhat stiff and sore. Not too badly so, considering, and I loosen up as soon as I start moving (though I stiffen right back up as soon as I _stop_ moving).
Conditions were better than the met service had predicted, inasmuch as it didn't snow on us. It did, however, hail on us at the start line, and then repeatedly throughout the race.
I ran from about the quarter mark to about the three quarter mark with a chap by the name of Mike, who was running his 456th marathon (yes, that is not a typo).
I ended up running 4:12:53, which was a bit slower than my target time of four hours, but meant that I ran sub 6 minute kms the whole way (if you don't meet the goals you set, find some others that you did meet...). I was on track to run sub 4hrs until just before the 3/4 mark, at which point I rounded a corner into a sub-zero head wind, it started hailing on us seriously, and I could almost feel the energy draining out of me.
I'm happy that I finished it, and comfortable that I did as well as I could, given my prep. I'm a bit disappointed that my prep wasn't all it could have been, having strained a calf muscle the week after the city to surf, and basically not running for a month at the point when I should have been peaking, but such is life, and motivation for next year.
Split times, for my future reference:
1/4 - 1:03:55
1/2 - 2:03:56
3/4 - 3:05:10
full - 4:12:53
This morning I'm somewhat stiff and sore. Not too badly so, considering, and I loosen up as soon as I start moving (though I stiffen right back up as soon as I _stop_ moving).
Conditions were better than the met service had predicted, inasmuch as it didn't snow on us. It did, however, hail on us at the start line, and then repeatedly throughout the race.
I ran from about the quarter mark to about the three quarter mark with a chap by the name of Mike, who was running his 456th marathon (yes, that is not a typo).
I ended up running 4:12:53, which was a bit slower than my target time of four hours, but meant that I ran sub 6 minute kms the whole way (if you don't meet the goals you set, find some others that you did meet...). I was on track to run sub 4hrs until just before the 3/4 mark, at which point I rounded a corner into a sub-zero head wind, it started hailing on us seriously, and I could almost feel the energy draining out of me.
I'm happy that I finished it, and comfortable that I did as well as I could, given my prep. I'm a bit disappointed that my prep wasn't all it could have been, having strained a calf muscle the week after the city to surf, and basically not running for a month at the point when I should have been peaking, but such is life, and motivation for next year.
Split times, for my future reference:
1/4 - 1:03:55
1/2 - 2:03:56
3/4 - 3:05:10
full - 4:12:53