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Last year, on the first Sunday in November, I ran my first half marathon in 2:45:36. Since then, I've run over 450 miles, and today I ran another half marathon in 2:06:09. I definitely feel better right now than I did after the first one. The first time, I thought to myself "there is no way I will ever run a marathon." Today, I am thinking to myself, "I really want to run a full marathon, but I really don't know what I'm going to have to do to make that happen." I suspect the only way it's going to happen is if I start finding more 2+ hour blocks of time to run during the rest of the year. On the plus side, this is the first timed race I've run where the first place finisher took longer than half my time to finish! If nothing else, next year I need to try to finish under 1:56:46 - then the world record will be longer than half my time.
Unfortunately, although the race provides a number of statistics, "how many dudes younger than me took longer than I did" is not one of them. But I can count them! It turns out that out of 1522 runners, 82 were dudes younger than me who took longer than I did. So yay for that.
Unfortunately, although the race provides a number of statistics, "how many dudes younger than me took longer than I did" is not one of them. But I can count them! It turns out that out of 1522 runners, 82 were dudes younger than me who took longer than I did. So yay for that.