Ocean Drive Marathon - RunMarathon

It went fine. I had no expectations or goals, other than to finish. My legs had been feeling ood, but this was my 3rd marathon in 6 weeks, so I didn't relaly know what to expect. Felt great at first, running wasy 7:45 miles. Kept it up for ~10 miles, but my quads were already getting tight. I didn't try to force it, and just kept moving forward, only walking at rest stops, and not starting that til mile 16. By 18, I was done, mentally, and just plodded along from one stop to the next.

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walked around, got a nice cup of warm soup, walked backto the hotel for a 5 min cold shower, and a 15min soak in the hot tub


This was a great smaller race. Unfortunately, the Jersey Coast is dead this time of year. Too cool to enjoy the water. Everyone was very friendly, hte event was well organized, lots of aid stations with friendly volunteers. Post race spread was adequate. My only gripe was the 9AM start. THe shuttle buses left the finish area at 7:15 for a 9AM start, so we were at the start by 7:45 with >1 hr to kill. They didn't let us stay on the warm bus, so people were hanging out in the 30deg cold wind for a long time. May be they could push that back 30 min or so. And the website wasn't updated after Dec 2012. Minor details, only, overall it was a good event.