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Comments: I signed up for this race on a whim from my wife (aka she talked me into it). I think that she mostly wanted a night's stay in a nice Hotel in Seattle and lots of shopping downtown yesterday! I'm traing for IMAZ, so my run volume lately has been sufficient to take a crack at a Marathon. What would you do differently?: Oh, that would be a lot of things! Train for it, I've done zero marathon specific training. Tapper, I ran 18.5 miles last weekend which incuded 8.5 miles of a step trail run. Not the smartest thing to do a week before a Marathon Not carbo load the night before with Beer and Wine... Pepcid AC is a good thing!  Post race
Warm down: Grabbed a Venti Mocha! An walked/ran my back to our hotel about 3 miles away (I could not be bothered to try and catch a shuttle or a cab). Sat in a bath for while and then caught the last hour of hotel's brunch Buffet! Not sure they've seen a skinny dude eat that much before. What limited your ability to perform faster: Alcohol Lack of training I also did not eat much on the run, in total I had 3 Gels and 4 off those little cups of watered down Gataoraide. I did drink a cup of water at most of the aid stations. Event comments: This was my 1st some what serious attempt at a stand alone marathon. For the week before hand we had a standing joke on this was my "how not to train for a marathon marathon" since it was a last minute deal. I've IMC a couple of times and the Honolullu Marathon once (this was not a good race at all, I ran with a slower group for the first 10 miles, and was just stuck in sheer volume of runners for the rest of the race). Overall I'm happy with my results, I figured I could have gone 10 mins faster with a bit more prep Last updated: 2006-11-26 12:00 AM
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Overall Rank = 201/unk
Age Group = 35/39
Age Group Rank = 35/206
Shook off last night’s hangover. Ya, a tasty pre race dinner at Barolo was not only delicious but intoxicating…
Had a Oatmeal snack bar and a Snicker’s Marathon bar for breakfast chased with a bottle of e-Caps mixed drink.
Are you kidding me, pre-race warm up? It was in high 30s/low 40s before the race. I clung to my space blanket shivering and seeking shelter from the rain where ever I could find it under some out cropping of the Experience Music Project Building.