Finished with a 6 minute improvement on my previous pr. 4:30! A lot of little hills during the course and I could have gone faster, but my mental game wasn't there. Overall, it was a great race.
Carpenter and marathoner!? You're really bucking the status quo here! Will you please make sure your next post convinces us you're a nerd like me? Haha j/k. Congrats on this.
He could have run faster but part of the course went through a field of dandelions and his California hippy sensibilities wouldn't allow him to harm an innocent flower, so he had to tip toe for about 3.25 miles.
Haha Huzke. We aren't all liberal hippies over here. I could have ran faster, but I was simply too much of a wussy to push through the fatigue and soreness after mile 16-17. Had to run/walk after that. Jupiter, my Magic the Gathering collection tops $3,000. Does that help qualify me?
Yes, and also the fact you had to run/walk helps. Haha. I just had a vision of a UO avatar stopping every five steps while trying to outrun an ettin. "You are too fatigued to move."
rofl. Huz, it has slowly grown and began pre-child and pre-house. Jupiter, that is actually quite accurate, but there is no ettin; it's simply the sun beating down on the avatar and sweat dripping down his face.
I can't imagine attempting to run a marathon at anything above 50-55º. I've only ran halfsies, and all have been under 40º. Keep in mind, I normally train in 80º+ heat...and I still think heat is the single hardest obstacle to overcome in a long race like that...well, beside putting your feet one in front of the other for 13 miles, but that's beside the point.
When I first moved to Charleston, the heat/humidity pretty much halved my running distances till I got used to it.
I've run the Boston Marathon a couple of times. It's in April, so you train November through April (OK, January through April). As a result, I'm very accustomed to running in 25º weather, but I too run far less in the summers. Even 70º is too hot for me.
