Heh. Yeah, last year I started right behind Meb Keflezhigi. Maybe 100ish seeded. A few hundred subseeded, I guess, but the start is very wide -- subseeded is still essentially at the very front, in a race with 50,000 odd. Seeded and subseeded also get their own corral entry and warmup area, which is very nice. No portapotty contention, either. The rest of the race is a mob scene.

Nice to know that I could start as a subseed and actually enjoy the race. Once we get moved to Seattle next year and it's a shorter trip.

1:07:05 or something close to that.  Pleased.  Cardiovascularly this was done at conversational pace, but the legs were done.  Good.  It's usually easier to bring my legs back in line than my lungs.

Good going, ennay!

I dont have an official time, but I did fail to DNF. 

DNDNF? Good job. Sounds like an adventure.

Way to go, Ennay!

Congrats Ennay. Also, log-stalking you I see there are some nifty goal widgets.

If only I could remember which of them are public and which are private.  Maybe I need to request an special format from the overlord so I dont look quite so psychotic.

HEY lagwagon - was that your first marathon?  or just the first in the log?  eitherway congrats!  I would have bailed on an icy marathon.

 

HEY lagwagon - was that your first marathon?  or just the first in the log?  eitherway congrats!  I would have bailed on an icy marathon.

It was my second marathon ever, but the first on trails.  I ran Philly in '06 (3:37 or so) which was before I joined here.  Since turning 40 means a clean slate (and most of my PRs were set 20+ years ago) I haven't bothered to log them.

I dont feel marathon sore today (no problem with stairs)  I'll take a couple days off anyway and get back to Pfitz next week.

And I wont do another ice race ever again (if I can help it), talk about a world of suck.  I'm lucky that my bumps and bruises all seem non running critical, and the minor one to my head may even improve something up there.

Key thing for me is that I feel like I pwn'd the marathon distance yesterday, boosting the confidence for when I run a real one this spring.

Ilene, is it against the rules to let Eric's poll gadget pick the  this week?

rules?  we have rules?  you are asking me to not flex my god-like power and authority given to me to pick the the coveted imaginary fucking cartoon  ??   ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HAH!

Ennay, it was seriously surreal!  the race went off late, to the WORST version of the star spangled banner I have ever heard (and I've heard some doozys!    then down dark deserted city streets, up steep hillsides to Dodger stadium, running like zombies around the perimeter of the empty parking lot, (several times, we did 4 miles looping in the parking lot) then actually in the stadium running on the grass of the ball field under the full bright kleig lights!     Then back through the dark city to the jeers of the homeless huddled against the cold in store- front doorways to the downtown finish line by the Metro tracks. 

 

 

Ennay, it was seriously surreal!  the race went off late, to the WORST version of the star spangled banner I have ever heard (and I've heard some doozys!    then down dark deserted city streets, up steep hillsides to Dodger stadium, running like zombies around the perimeter of the empty parking lot, (several times, we did 4 miles looping in the parking lot) then actually in the stadium running on the grass of the ball field under the full bright kleig lights!     Then back through the dark city to the jeers of the homeless huddled against the cold in store- front doorways to the downtown finish line by the Metro tracks. 

Sounds...fun?  Did you get flipped off?  Because I did on my quiet country 10K in the state known for being so polite the politeness is annoying.

Woohoo lagwagon!!!!  Congratulations and bravo!