Subject: RE: Tobacco Road Marathon Running_in_NC - 2011-03-21 10:44 AM I agree that marathon's are painful. I have run 5 marathons and each one of them hurt. My marthons hurt even more than my Ironman races. But that is probably just because I have yet to finish an Ironman without walking some of the marathon. Oh, and my vote is that a marathon is much worse than a 5k. I agree that 5k's are very painful. But that pain goes away as soon as you cross the finish line. The marathon pain gets much worse when you cross and try to walk. And the muscle soreness lasts for days. How are you doing with stairs today? Congratulations on a great finish. Sorry we didn't stick around for your finish. Thanks! Yeah, you're right about 5K pain being over right way while marathon pain last... well, I don't know how long it last. I'm only on first day after race; will have to wait to see how many days it takes to feel normal again! Luckily, I don't have any stairs. But yesterday I couldn't even step up onto the 6 in curb! Oh, thank God we did not stop to walk during that race or all of that pain would have set in and we NEVER would have been able to run again. No worries on not staying. James had already told me he likely would not. We really didn't expect ya'll to. It was a long day and indeed chilly out there. And we were hours behind you. But I felt REALLY bad about missing Roxanne. We kept watching and watching the chute, then wondered if we missed her somehow. But we had to get checked out of our hotel, so we left to get a shuttle. Turned out she finished shortly thereafter. That was the strangest pain I ever felt in relation to training/racing. Can't wait to do it again! |
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You must be THIS tall to run in this race... Ha!
Did a lot of foam rolling and stretching the night before. Got up, had coffee and a slice of wheat bread with peanut butter.
Took shuttle to race site and met up with the other club members. We had Carol, Trish, Jason, and Roxanne, plus me and Pete, but our president was no where to be found. Turned out the buses were running late from the parking lot. The Half was supposed to start at 7:00 a.m. followed by the Full at 7:15. But the Half did not start until 7:15 because they kept waiting for buses to arrive. Apparently, there were still athletes who did not get to start with the group because of the buses running late. The Full started at 7:30 a.m.
I was cold waiting around, but I opted for my Tarahumara orange T-shirt to match Flash and Dash with shorts. I was pretty sure I'd regret running tights once I warmed up.
Light stretching.