At the start of the race for me the leader had 131 mile and DFL was at 25 miles. My flight was delayed so I did not get there on the day before the first race but I got there on day 2 of the races.

Well first lap I was in the lead pack but decided to let them go. I finish my first marathon in about 7:30 hours. I was happy because at this point there was no way I could be last anymore. I was keeping it slow so I could go for a long time. I felt my pace was perfect for what I was doing. It was fairly constant and really did not drop much through out the day. When I would stop I stopped for about 15 minutes at a time. I would use the stick to work on my muscles. My first stop was my best one. I forgot to put on my calf conpression socks so I stopped and put them on. My calf was sore and tight from crapping up several times at night due to the cold. I had no calf problems once I put the compression sock things on.

I figured I had about 8 hours to play with at the pace I was going. I tried to drink and eat about every 3 loops or 1 mile. I keep the amount small since I could have plenty to eat and drink.

I got first blisters around mile 14 and the ones that really killed me I got around mile 41. If I did not get those last blisters I think I could gone 100k easy. My legs were not tired at all through the race.

I tried to sleep some after midnight and I laid down from 12 - 2 but I did not sleep at all. I when I went back on the course I started to feel sick alot. The pain from the blisters were getting pretty bad even though they were popped. My left foot did not have blisters on it but was all torn up as the doc said. I got to the point where I would do a mile or 2 and sit for 30 minutes. I was in alot of pain but I really wanted to get the 50 miles in. Once I got the 50 I wanted to get to 52.4. After that my next goal was 62 and I knew I would not get there since I was moving so slowly and I could not take that pain for 6 hours.

Once I got done with 52.5 miles even with 2 hours left in the race I decided to just quite and try to get sleep. I was worried about driving back to the airport.

I would have them pretape my feet. I heard that would have taken care alot of my blister problems I had.

I tried to sleep some and then I packed up my bed and gear.


BListers they hurt so bad.


It was a great race. Best of the year and maybe best I ever done. Race officals are great and the other racers are great. it might be a small .3 mile track but you really got to know the people. The after party had like 3 12 foot subs and lot more food. It really had everything I wanted in a race.