Notes
Boy, this race was tough for me. The first loop of 15.5 miles was great! Until I biffed it big time at mile 8.5. My knee looks like someone took a cheese grater to it. Blood ran down my leg into my sock and my right shoe now has red polka dots on it! I kept running though. No other choice really. I wasn't going to drop out.
The second loop is where it got tough. The temperatures started to climb and my pace really started to slow. By mile 22 I was struggling. My stomach was cramping with no bathrooms in site and I was getting my all too familiar heartburn and nausea. By mile 24.5, I was having trouble breathing. I don't know if it was from my asthma or from the panicked thought that this was only the halfway point of a 50 miler. I started freaking out about the race that I'm signed up for on March 1st.
Clint (in my running club) caught up to just after this point and it's a good thing. He kept me going and pulled me the rest of the way home. We walked/jogged the rest of the 6 miles to the finish. I did it! But, I was a wreck for the rest of the day. I think I went into this race slightly dehydrated and it sure showed. After cleaning up my leg, I took a 3 hour nap. I woke up for 1.5 hours and had some mac n cheese and 3 cookies and a glass of milk then went back to bed at 7:30 pm. I slept until 5:30 am for a total of 13 hours of sleep after the race.
My husband Clint asked me if I felt a sense of accomplishment the way I did when I qualified for the Boston Marathon. I said no, but that's probably because I felt so danged crappy. I feel more accomplished today as I write this because I got through it. But the 50 miler is now up for debate...
1st half was approximately - 2:31:09
2nd half was approximately - 3:17:59
Mile 1: 9:20
Mile 2: 8:49
Mile 3: 10:17
Mile 4: 10:08
Mile 5: 9:42
Mile 6: 11:13
Mile 7: 9:31
Mile 8: 9:22
Mile 9: 10:10
Mile 10: 8:57
Mile 11: 9:36
Mile 12: 8:38
Mile 13: 9:00
Mile 14: 9:22
Mile 15: 10:14
Mile 16: 11:41
Mile 17: 9:47
Mile 18: 10:29
Mile 19: 10:52
Mile 20: 11:04
Mile 21: 12:51
Mile 22: 11:09
Mile 23: 12:32
Mile 24: 13:26
Mile 25: 15:31
Mile 26: 14:03
Mile 27: 14:11
Mile 28: 12:29
Mile 29: 15:41
Mile 30: 16:49
Mile 31: 11:59