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not bad for mile 25
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That's pretty funny, slowgino. In spite of your success, probably not the recommended way to run your races.
Definitely not recommended. The second one was just on a spur-of-the-moment wild idea when I couldn't get back to sleep. My most interesting lesson from this was : If I had planned to do this, there's no way I could have done it... if I had known that I was going to run Seattle, there's no way I could have run that 2:57 PR in Portland. (note - in 1978 Portland and Seattle were run on the same weekend... not so these days.)
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My climbing partner had told me that he would be staying with a friend in Seattle in a condo with a hot tub, so if I decided to run Seattle instead of Portland he'd meet me at the finish there so I'd have a good place to crash. Since he didn't know which race I would choose to run he just hung around the finish line in Seattle until about the 3:30 point in the race and assumed I hadn't run it (normally, I'd have finished by then.) So he wasn't there when I finished in 3:41... that was a bit disappointing... I just drove 180 miles back home... arghh, that was the hardest part, not falling asleep...
Anyway, I tell people "You have no idea what you are capable of, or what your real limits are..."