I was surprised at a few things today, I did'nt walk half this course, my knees felt extremely well the entire time, which was awesome. Then I was surprised at how well my HR held on to 173 for the longest time (I had thought it was busted).
I put myself at the end so as not to hold anyone up but it turned out I was the one passing a people from beginning to end. Experience taught me to hold my pace well. I had lost track of the mile markers from looking down all the time but I managed to spot mi/marker 3 (30:53). I realized I was fairly easily going to make it non-stop, decided to pick it up just a bit.
By 3mi was feeling that tightness on my left traps & was dodging a lot of walkers so I jumped on the grass and really enjoyed the soft but not mushy ground for a while. I was happy to finish strong wanting to go faster but with so many walkers at this point made it unsafe.

Train more to avoid being so paranoid about not making it. Probably do a faster pace but I did not have my foot pod (on it's way to St. A's) & was not paying enough attention to see the other mile markers.

A good stretch on the grass, felt a lot of tense muscles loosen up. Took a bagel & water.


Insecurity due to lack of training.


Did this primarily to qualify for the 2010 marathon but I would enjoy it just for the run as well. Look forward to more similar & would do this one again.