In spite of the crappy weather, I had a decent run for the first 18 miles. I was staying where I wanted, at a 9:10 or so pace. Between miles 18 and 19 the bottom outside of my left foot really started giving me some problems. So much so, that I had to stop and fidgit with it. I had to walk a little, then the pain would subside, then I'd run again till it hurt, then have to walk. So the last 8 or so miles were done doing this. It's feeling a lot better (it's Thursday after the Sunday run) and I'm hoping it's nothing serious like a stress fracture. I'm pretty dissapointed with my time and I'm hoping to destroy that in the next marathon I do.

I need more long runs in my training. I wasn't able to do as many long runs as I wanted and I feel like that may have been my problem. My feet weren't used to taking abuse for that long.

Had some water, although I really didn't need it and went looking for the food. I could not find it anywhere. The beer tent popped right out at me so I had a beer. Then I found my girlfriend (who broke 4 hours) and we went to breakfast.


My foot and the weather. It was miserable weather. I've run 2 marathons now and both have been in the rain.........so, don't sign up for any marathons with me. I seem to be rotten luck.


I'm sure this would have been an amazing race if the weather had cooperated. There were pretty much no crowds, and the volunteers (who were amazing to be standing out in the weather for as long as they did) were pretty miserable too. It seems that the people coming in from the marathon missed any kind of band that was playing at the end and from what I heard most of the food was gone by then too. Other than that....it was fantastic! The people that made it out and braved the weather should be proud.