Do they let you use a garmin for pacing?

Yes. Although I doubt the distance was accurate going around a partially wooded 1/4 mile track. I manually lapped each quarter mile: 1:25, 1:34, 1:36, 1:36 - 6:11 first mile 1:38, 1:39, 1:38, 1:34 - 6:29 second mile Now that I look at that, it doesn't look like such even splits

... Thinking maybe about something under 13 minutes. Will see how it goes.

Congrats

Did you eat honey during the marathon or just in the days leading up to it?

A tablespoon of honey with each meal three days before marathon. Eat carbs with the meal but just normal sized meals. Most of my carbs were strawberries. I had bagel with honey the morning of. Shan was so fun to run with. She's funny! I was going on a stroll enjoying the ride and she's picking off runners. She's like "see that person, there is no reason we're behind that guy." Cracks me up. I was trying to be careful though as there were lots of half marathon runners with us, and looks can be deceiving. I want to run with her again, when I don't have to worry about recovery, go see how many runners we can put behind us.

Yap, Bugs and JF great pictures! Dave: The Army standards only go to age 41? Good week of running going for me. 10& change Monday, 10& change today.

Dave: The Army standards only go to age 41?

Try this link. Should work better. They go up to 61 but I can't imagine being that old and still being in the Army. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/army/a/afpt.htm The standards used to be tougher. At one point I needed 11:54 to get 100% on my run. Sometimes its good to be old

Yap, (Yapper is too long for now on you're yap). Nice family! Expensive having a running family???

New name...check! Not too expensive, I guess. 15 bucks per. Well worth the $$$.

Nice race Dave!! Great picture Bugs As for me life is getting in the way. My Dog Kallie (golden retreiver) is really sick so I can't leave her alone which means I can't run until dh gets home. Today I had two places to be at close to the same time. Got Frankie to his practice asked my friend if she didn't mind keeping an eye on him until either Ken or I could get back, then had to head off to get Katie to her practice . Not usually so bad however having a sick dog with you doesn't help. Thankfully my aunt decided to show up today which means she should be outta the house by Sunday. Can't wait for Sunday. I'm doing a 5k tomorrow as a kind of tempo run. Not racing it but it's the first of the summer series so I really don't want to miss it. A freaky thing happened to my 2 year old washer. It has a glass lid and the bottom pane shattered (didn't completely break but it's got spider veins all over) on the top part of it. The only thing I can think of that caused it was temperature. Maybe doing a cold wash after doing a hot wash earlier. Anyways I can't do laundry in fear that the weakened glass will completely break leaving lots of broken glass inside the washer. Hopefully when they repair company comes out tomorrow they can call the part in and they will have it in stock. Anyway got in a nice 6 mile run after dark tonight. LOVED running in the dark though could have used a headlamp. If I'm to run at night I can't go too far due to not having much lighting and safe roads to run on.

Real runners wear the same clothes for multiple runs. Clean laundry is overrated. (I even wore the sports bra from Saturday more than once. I smelled it, not a drop of sweat on it.) Hang in there Pam, now you need to conserve mental and physical energy. I was scheduled for a 5K one week before my marathon, it wasn't really a problem except I think I got a little banged up **** but **** I think it was because I did not warm-up properly. If you race it (and I would) I'd ice your legs afterwards.