Notes
signed up for this with the intent on qualifying for boston, absolute last chance to qualify for 2020. first 4 or 5 miles, my garmin didn't sync up, so i had no idea how fast i was going, and was basically in no mans land almost the entire time. Watch kept saying 7:40, but i knew that wasn't right. Turns out I was moving around 6:30 or under. Finally connected, and had to take random splits for it to give me an accurate split. The course was 8 loops around a river and on a park like paved trail.
By mile 18 or 19, my "hernia" or whatever it is started hurting extremely bad, pain shot all the way down to my foot, and i had not choice but to bail at 20. Not worth aggravating it anymore than it already was. I probably should've gone out a bit more conservative and maybe it wouldn't have hurt as quickly, and then maybe i could've pulled through, but it is what it is. Sucks to DNF, first time ever, all i know is at the time, it was the right decision.
on the bright side, i saved about $1200 not going to boston, and I had a good 20 mile workout at a 6:30 avg or under. Time to go see a doc and see what's up with it.