http://6abc.com/society/teen-accidentally-runs-full-philadelphia-marathon/1096751/
Hasn't everone done that at least once?
delicate flower
haha....poor kid. Well props to him for wanting to go ahead and finish!
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Which medal did he get?
Are we there, yet?
Not that, but on my first run in a new area I'd just moved to one year I took the wrong road at a traffic circle where there were 5 choices instead of the 4 my map showed. So my planned 4 mile run turned into 13. In addition to the extra miles, it started raining about halfway through the run and a bedraggled Golden Retriever who was apparently lost decided to join me.
2024 Races:
03/09 - Livingston Oval Ultra 6-Hour, 22.88 miles
05/11 - D3 50K 05/25 - What the Duck 12-Hour
06/17 - 6 Days in the Dome 12-Hour.
Funny story. That would have been a helluva positive split for me after running the first 13.1 @ HMP.
PRs:
5k - 20:51 - 9/5/15
10k - 47:00 - 5/25/15
15k - 1:10:19 - 11/21/15
13.1 - 1:42:25- 4/25/15
26.2 - TBD (someday)
Not that, but on my first run in a new area I'd just moved to one year I took the wrong road at a traffic circle where there were 5 choices instead of the 4 my map showed.
Back in my early years in the sport, I used to drive my routes before I ran them.
I did that after I learned that the maps for my area were really bad. I live in farm country and a lot of dirt farm lanes are shown as through roads when they only lead to a barn or the back 40. After having some loop runs end up as excessively long out and backs, (and in one case a call for help from DH), I learned to drive new rural routes first. It also allowed me to see how hilly a route was and how narrow the road That's less of a problem now, but I used to be really scared of blind corners/hills. I got used to them eventually though I've had a few close calls.