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Four hours, forty six minutes, fifty two seconds. Official results posted here. The last 10 miles of the race was brutal, as it got cold (low 50s), cloudy, and windy (sustained 20-25 mph headwinds) I ran a large part of the race with this really nice canadian lady. We had good conversation. She's sixty years old. crazy...

Accomplishments:
  • ran a marathon. All 42 kilometers of it. yeah, 26.2 miles, but after chatting with the canadian, I decided 42 kilometers sounds more impressive =P
  • ran a marathon while sick (caught a cold on thursday, still sick now)
Failures:
  • Did not beat P-Diddy (4:14:54).
  • Did not beat Oprah (4:29:20).
Amandine was awesome and came up to vermont with me for moral support and drove us home after my legs shut down. On the way home, we made the obligatory celebratory I-93 stop.



Here's a chart of my training (miles completed). I definitely wasn't umm... rigorous near the end.
week  | sun   mon  tue  wed  thur  fri  sat
  1   | x     5    4    7     x    x    12.5
  2   | x     2.5  2.5  7.5   5    x    x
  3   | 10    x    3    2.5   x    x    x
  4   | 15    x    4    3     x    x    x
  5   | 16    x    x    2     x    x    x
  6   | 18    x    x    x     x    x    x
  7   | 12    x    x    10    x    x    x
  8   | 20    x    x    x     x    x    x
  9   | 4     x    x    x     x    x    26.2
Was it worth it? Totally. Would I do it again? Maybe, but not for a while. It'd be cool to do serious training and see if I could hit some milestones (e.g. beat P-Diddy, sub 4-hour run, etc.) but for now, I'm just gonna chill out for a while...





Re: my first marathon
Posted 21 years, 1 month ago by amandine • • Reply
oh, and bought booze.



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