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Lank! (Read 431 times)
rockenmamof5
posted: 10/26/2008 at 8:06 PM
GREAT JOB Lank!!!! Congrats on finishing your first marathon! When are you running your next one? Tongue
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson



jscovill
posted: 10/27/2008 at 12:01 AM
congratulations Lank! Hope you recover well!
ShanHas
I'm excited!
 posted: 10/27/2008 at 12:11 AM
Great job Lank!!!
When's the next one?
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Lank
posted: 10/27/2008 at 4:56 PM
Thanks everyone for the kind words.

Running can be very inspirational and very uplifting. It can also be very humbling and I experienced much of the latter. I really thought a 4 hour marathon was in the cards but that was obviously not the case. I had envisioned a slow start, working my way up to the four hour pacer near the half and finishing strong and everything worked well up until 18 or so miles.

My watch splits are much different than the official site's version (although my finishing time is right on). I went through 3 miles at 28:42, through 10 miles at 1:30:49 just behind the four-hour pacer, at 13 miles I was 1:57:25 and actually surged ahead of her at this point but then somewhere during mile 19 the wheels came off. I'd estimate my half to be about 1:58:20 and my finishing time was 4:27:37 so a drastic drop-off.

It was a great event, the course was great, the crowd was excellent, I'm very happy I did it, but it has left me disappointed like reading a great book only to have a dud as the final chapter. But how good can one feel after being beat by someone in a banana suit?

Having said all that this is a new PR for me and that should always be celebrated. The answer, as always, is more miles.
"Good-looking people have no spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter." - Lester Bangs
Ileneforward
posted: 10/27/2008 at 5:13 PM
Yes celebrate! You aren't just a hot accountant...you're a hot accountant marathoner. Big grin
ʇuǝɹʇ
ʎǝʞuoɯ ʎʞunɟ
 posted: 10/27/2008 at 5:16 PM
Quote from Lank on 10/27/2008 at 4:56 PM:
But how good can one feel after being beat by someone in a banana suit?


Banana dude is a wimp. He got his lazy ass off the course while you were still out there fighting for the Man. It takes real mettle to do battle for that long. Kudos. You are strong. You are tough.

And monkeys eat bananas anyway.
noʎ ɥʇıʍ ǝq ʎǝʞuoɯ ǝɥʇ ʎɐɯ
mikeymike
posted: 10/27/2008 at 5:16 PM
We (okay just me) were tracking you in Dave's thread and watched it unfold. I recognized that fade from my first marathon and knew what you were feeling at the end. Good job grinding it out.

Congrats on your first marathon!
Run2Eat
posted: 10/27/2008 at 6:04 PM
Quote from Lank on 10/27/2008 at 4:56 PM:
But how good can one feel after being beat by someone in a banana suit?


sounds more like a kinkython than a marathon. heh heh.

lank - good job. do not waste time being disappointed. there are too many variables in marathoning to count on getting it all right the first time. you did great.
if you don't run, you'll rust. [tom petty]
JakeKnight
posted: 10/27/2008 at 6:26 PM
Quote from Lank on 10/27/2008 at 4:56 PM:
But how good can one feel after being beat by someone in a banana suit?



Pictures please.

And that may be the funniest thing I ever heard in a race report that didn't involve somebody shitting on themselves.
E-mail: JakeKnight2002@aol.com
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andahuff
Non ducor, duco.
 posted: 10/27/2008 at 7:18 PM
You did it man. You didnt give in and that is awesome. Next time you can smash banana boy. Come on and admit it, it must have been fun for you doing all the math in your head while you ran.
In search of trouble.
Lank
posted: 10/30/2008 at 7:36 PM
http://www.runningahead.com/forums/topic/4e4dcefa46364f92a540c24172525a21

There's even a picture of me biting my tongue. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it's better than cats.
"Good-looking people have no spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we're smarter." - Lester Bangs
Dragon76
posted: 10/30/2008 at 7:43 PM
Quote from Lank on 10/30/2008 at 7:36 PM:
http://www.runningahead.com/forums/topic/4e4dcefa46364f92a540c24172525a21

There's even a picture of me biting my tongue. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it's better than cats.


Hmm, somehow I always pictured you with a moustache.

Nicely done!
Amy
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andahuff
Non ducor, duco.
 posted: 10/30/2008 at 7:44 PM
Did you make it bleed? That would be cool.
In search of trouble.
Minderbender
posted: 10/30/2008 at 7:52 PM
Better than Cats? Technically true, but painfully nonspecific.
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