RunningAHEAD - Topic: My First Marathon!!! Woo Hoo!!!

RunningNorm

posted: 12/10/2006 at 6:00 PM

Hi Friends!!! Just wanted to share with you all that I just did and finished my first marathon on Saturday and I am psyched...hooked...and feeling euphoria!!! I did the Charlotte Thunder Road Marathon on Saturday....finished in 4:41ish....not bad for a 36 year old guy who just started running again a few summers ago! :-) But, also wanted to post this....for those of you who want to do the race next year. The course is very hilly, very challenging...but awesome! And, Charlotte has an amazing downtown with great nightlife! The race was great...the volunteers were awesome...so, this is a great race! Thanks to everyone for your great support and comments and help. I finished with no blisters or issues with my feet...my legs feeling great...I had a wierd chaffing on my right side of my chest and arm....not planned for...but no nips issues. So, yeah...I am happy... ...and, I am proud to say I have completed a marathon. Oh, that sounds good!

If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther. - John Wooden

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 12/10/2006 at 6:40 PM

Norm, you should be proud--that is awesome! And your time is excellent, too, especially if it was a very hilly course! Big grin

k

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

SkBunny

posted: 12/10/2006 at 8:34 PM

Congratulations!!! I am green with envy, still working towards my first. As the time nears I will be asking you questions. Big grin

BTW, great time on a hilly course. And aren't those endorphins great? Ewa

I would rather wear out than rust out. - Helen Klein You create your own universe as you go along. - Winston Churchill

kooky2003

Now that was a bath...

posted: 12/10/2006 at 9:58 PM

WTG!!! A very impressive time to boot. Like Ewa i'm working towards my first marathon and it's always great to hear positive first-timer reports, makes me think that I can do this after all. Claire xxx

jlynnbob "HTFU, Kookie's distal tibia"

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SurfNRun

Prophet!

posted: 12/11/2006 at 12:31 AM

nice job..4:41 is awesome...no nipples issues are always a good thing ? Getting ready for the next one ? aloha, steve

JakeKnight

posted: 12/11/2006 at 10:20 AM

Out-freakin'-standing. So what's next? Wink

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Pron8r

posted: 12/11/2006 at 10:28 AM

Congratulations on a tremendous accomplishment! Great time for a first marathon!

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woodlandsprite

Finished!

posted: 12/11/2006 at 2:33 PM

Congratulations!

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RunningNorm

posted: 12/11/2006 at 6:12 PM

Thank you all for your time and congrats! I was asked what is next... my friends from Grad School are putting together a group to do the Georgia Marathon in Atlanta this coming March! So, very psyched for this next goal!!! The course is supposed to be nice and hilly, too! Yay!!!

If you go as far as you can see, you will then see enough to go even farther. - John Wooden

Wingz

Professional Noob

posted: 12/11/2006 at 9:30 PM

Congrats!

Roads were made for journeys...

Trent

Good Bad & The Monkey

posted: 12/11/2006 at 10:31 PM

Oh no. Not again. Not another poor soul. I am so sorry. Sooooo sorry indeed. Folks, another one has fallen. A good man is gone. Another fine upstanding citizen has fallen to marathoning. It seems he is addicted. And he already has admitted to it. Next thing you know, Norm will be running 8 'thons in 2008, or some foolish thing like that. Sheesh. Sheesh indeed. Norm. I am terribly sorry. Wink

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

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rectumdamnnearkilledem

posted: 12/12/2006 at 7:30 AM

Quote from RunningNorm on 12/11/2006 at 6:12 PM:

The course is supposed to be nice and hilly, too! Yay!!!

Nice...hilly...yay....does not compute! Wink

k

Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to

remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

~ Sarah Kay

gwingham

gimme some sugar, baby

posted: 12/12/2006 at 8:18 AM

"Legs feeling great" LUCKY. I don't think I walked normally for 3 weeks after my first marathon. I totally know that chafing... normally I get it on the sides of my chest / armpits / sides of my back from my arms against my skin. Let's just say taking a shower and putting on deodorant was incredibly painful for a few days afterwards...

George: Runner/Law Student
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jlynnbob

You'll ruin your knees!

posted: 12/12/2006 at 11:09 AM

Congratulations, marathoner! Rest well...so what's next? Lynn B

""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)

imatarb

posted: 1/1/2007 at 12:25 PM

I would die a happy woman with a finish time like that!! Awesome job. Smile

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