my goal was 1:45 but I woulda been happy with anything under 1:50 so I knew to get 1:45 i'd have to avg a 4:59/km pace. I wanted to start out a little slow and see how I was feeling then pick it up around the 1/2 way mark but ended up go out a little fast and stayed at or below goal pace for the first 10k, then picked it up a bit for the rest of the race. I looked down a few times and saw that I was going 4:30/4:40 pace and had to slow down a bit. Very happy that I got my garmin in time for the race because it helped me tremendously with my paces. At the 18k mark I decided I'd pick it up a bit and just kept going with it, the last 1k I was almost running at my 5k pace somehow, and I just dug down and finished hard.

I was very happy with my consistent training up untill a few weeks before the race when I got a new job and worked longer days and was more tired then usual and I didn't have the energy to train as well as I would have liked, but that's life right. Other then that I was very happy with my run and actually quite suprised I was able to maintain better then my goal pace the whole way. The week leading up to the race I was starting to rethink my goal time since it was about 20+ minutes faster then my best training run.

got my water and all the free food and just walked around the park for a while to cool down ate a bunch of food drank a bunch of water then walked around some more while waiting for my buddy to finish. Signed up for a free massage and did some stretches. Watched the full marathon top finsisher which was cool (2:25). Then my buddy came through. Walked around again untill it was my turn for a massage. It was my first massage and I thought it would just be a basic 5min massage since it was free but it lasted about 20-30mins and felt soooo good.


genetics and just starting running about a year ago.


I forgot to mention that they had a stage set up for awards and stuff, and while they weren't giving out awards they had a RUSH cover band!!!!!! which is one of my fav bands so that was wicked awesome. AND....As I was sitting by the stage eating my hamburger watching the awards I was suprised to hear them call out my name for 2nd in my age group!!!! (25-29)and got a sweet New Balance gym bag.