Getting up at 4am is so much fun, especially when rain is in the forecast for race day, but rain or shine Jenny and I were going to show up! Race time started at 6am without any rain so far but it was still in the forecast for later in the run as the race directors warned us. We started with a marathon pacer for 8:24 min miles which is around the time we wanted to stay at, she was very good at keeping us on pace as we were at 8:17s ish till she left us with her marathon pack. That's when the run became fun OK not fun HARD straight wind for 3 miles I am not talking light wind I am talking 20 to 30 mile hour straight continues gust! I wanted to walk but realized that would even take longer to finish, so running it was almost 9 min miles, slowing down 45 seconds per mile. Thankfully we turned around for the last 3 miles to finish up going back down to low 8's! The last .20 mile is when I hit the rain, how lucky could I get! Not so lucky for the people behind me or the marathoners who had to endure not only wind but now rain on top of it, just another reason not to run marathons.
Final clock time was 1:51.58
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get out there and run a marathon would you?!!!!! congrats on your time.
CONGRATULATIONS! That is an amazing time and the weather you had to endure makes it that much more impressive!
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