I stayed with Gwen and Heather for the first 3 miles. We started in corral 13 (I was supposed to be in corral 17, Heather was in 9) and it took 8 minutes to reach the start line. There were 16,000+ runners (I guess 3,000 DNFd?). Once we reached the start line I stayed with them even though we were running a 10m/m- waaay too fast for me. By mile 3 I was pooped and needed a walk break so I said goodbye to my friends. I ran fro another 1/2 hour or so before deciding to fall into my 12/3 run/walk routine. Turns out 3 minues of walking was too much and 12 minutes running wasn't enough. So I constantly tweaked it and got my walk breaks down to about a minute/ minute and a half. I felt good except for 1 nasty blister on my toe. Funny thing is that at mile 8 I statred thinking about the Marine Corps Marathon coming up next month and I don't know if I still wanna do it. Anyway, getting back- I wore a fuel belt with 2 bottles of gatorade and strapped a ziploc baggie with 2 bags of shot blocks and 1 bag of sport beans to it. Every 15 minutes I ate a block or a few beans and took a small swig of gatorade. I drank water on the course at each water stop. I tried the Cytomax once (YUCK YUCK YUCK YUCK) and decided water was much better. All in all I had a great day and PR'd to boot!

Nail down my run/walk breaks to see what I really NEED, not just want.

Drank a bottle of water, got my medal, snagged a few granola bars and met up with Gwen and Heather at out pre arranged tree spot.


My extra weight (I just got some good news about that- more to come later- BYE BYE INSULIN!)


How can you complain about a race you PR'd on? It was a beautiful day to run, the weather was awesome and it was a pretty course. There were lots of volunteers and unlike finishing IMLP, I actually heard the announcer say "Here's Beth Sanborn from Lansdale". It was a great day all in all.