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Comments: Way too hot and humid for me. Not enough water stops, and the small dixie cups weren't nearly enough for me so I always had to grab 2-3. I sweat like a man so I was drenched throughout the race. My HR started going up around mile 9 and my breathing was labored and stayed that way until the end of the race, which confused me as this didn't happen at Cowtown at all. I think the heat, humidity and hills (however small and few) got to me since I don't train on hills at all. It was a hard race and I had to work hard to push it to the end, but I did it and I'm very happy that I did it. A bad day running is better than a good day working, or something like that... What would you do differently?: Train on hills more. Lose more weight.  Post race
Warm down: Walked about a mile to the expo area and got my finisher's shirt, chocolate milk and pretzels. Felt OK until about 30 minutes later when my legs started cramping up a bit. Luckily by that time my husband found me and helped me back to our car. What limited your ability to perform faster: Heat, humidity, hormones, weight, lack of hill training. Zombies. Event comments: Huge marathon with lots of spectators, music bands, etc to keep you entertained. I did have the misfortune to go into a porta potty that was so gross it will haunt me for the rest of my life. Some things just can't be unseen. Great volunteers. The finish line was too far from food for my liking, but can't have everything. I've heard a few people say that this race was difficult so maybe it wasn't just me struggling. Last updated: 2012-09-20 12:00 AM
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MetroPCS Dallas Marathon
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Said "no" to the inflated hotel room prices in Dallas by taking our RV to a dodgy little RV/trailer park on W. Commerce in West Dallas and stayed there instead. Only 1.3 miles from race start. It wasn't bad at all - didn't feel unsafe and the permanent residents of the trailer park were very friendly and helpful with directions, etc. So it was $30 a night instead of $200-250 for a hotel room. Ok, it was free as the manager was gone for the weekend and when I tried to contact him he didn't answer his phone so I didn't feel the need to hunt him down and beg him to take my money. Score one for the home team.
Saturday morning was exciting - a large parade of Latino people in various traditional Native American tribal garb banging drums, coupled with banners of the Virgin Mary, and many of them just dressed in scary costumes left me wondering what in the heck kind of parade it was... A LatinoNativeAmericanCatholicHalloween Parade! I put the leash on our dogs and went to the curb to watch, but they are girly dogs and scare easily so I had to put them back in the RV after 10 minutes.The parade passed right by us on W. Commerce (which was part of the marathon route, btw) so that part of town was seeing a lot of action throughout the weekend.
"Carb loaded" Friday night (carb loading isn't something I have a problem doing on any given day, so I took it easy) then Saturday met-up with a friend who lives in Dallas for lunch at the Bread Winner - had a salad and water with a slice of orange. Went to race expo, registered, bought a pair of socks and went back to the RV. Found a funky little hipster restaurant in W. Dallas and ate a light dinner. Went to bed at 10pm.
Woke at 5am, dressed and ate a breakfast of a mini bagel with two wedges of laughing cow cheese, and a bowl of homemade apple-cinnamon steel cut oats with 1/2 c. of almond milk. Hubs dropped me off at Corral C, the Corral for slow runners, and I waited for my coach to show and get the party started. She finally did show and we chatted for a while. 10 minutes before race start I sucked a Gu and finished my bottle of Vitamin Water.