Little Rock Marathon - RunMarathon

Things went very well. I had very little expectations coming into this race. I told myself to stay relaxed and I did well with this. I ran with the 3:30 pace group and talked to several guys along the way which helped. I felt really good until a huge hill from about mile 14.5 - 16. It went on forever. I felt pretty good coming over the top but I really think running down pounded my legs and hurt worse than going up. I was able to get back into a rhythmn and felt OK to just past 20. I took my first walk break at 21, then made it to 23 for a break, another at 24, another at 25, and made it in the last 1.2, hurting, but stayed pretty solid. The last 5 miles was dead into the wind that really hurt. I only took one long walk break - right at 25 there was a big climb with a steep downhill that I started to cramp on. I stopped and stretched for 20 sec or so, and then it was another 150yard `limb that I walked a good bit of, but then I was able to run the rest of hte way in. Overall a very good run.

nothing. I don't think I could have had a much better race.

walked around and ate, and walked back to the hotel


wind


The race itself was great. Decent expo, everything started on time, lots of volunteers, great aid stations with water, powerade at all,gel and fruit at a lot. My biggest gripe was the post-race area. They offered a cup of water or powerade, bananas or oranges, and then handed me a baggie with a couple of cookies and chips in it - that was it. No tables or bottled drinks or anything, here's your baggie,thanks for coming, get out of the post-race area adn you can;t come back in. They did have a separate "perks" tent that you could buy a ticket for for an extra $20. Every other race I've ever done included these perks inthe race price though. Other than the post-race fiasco, everything was good