Notes
Flying Monkey Marathon with Samuel - his first!
We ran together the entire way. I had a blast running with him and helping him complete this race after he has been a part of it since he was a kid, cheering and supporting us and other runners. Samuel was busy with grad school and didn't train heavily, but he was strong and pushed through tough times in the race. We planned to start no faster than 9:30-10:00 pace, and found it hard to stay that slow at the beginning. By halfway Samuel was feeling it a bit and we slowed some, with our slowest mile at 16:41 for mile 19, since we run mixing walking breaks with running by then. However, he bounced back at the end and was under 10:00 pace for the last mile (and possibly for the last two miles).
It was an amazing privilege to run this with Samuel.