Hello everyone, well I did it. We have had a great time here in Portland. My sisters new house is beautiful and we have had lots of fun. My daughter almost immediately stopped asking me for stuff and went straight to her. We went to the zoo and really enjoyed it. It was huge and the animals were quite active.
Now the race, there were some bigger hills than I imagined, and they were long. Not a very pretty course but it was fun because there were a lot of people. I start out too fast and started to slow down about mile ten. There were some miles with the hills that were pretty slow. My last 5 miles weren't too bad, I hurt like no other, but they went really well and I didn't slow down all that bad. I was going to register in my weight division but we got to the expo late and they were practically shoving us out the door and I forgot. You had to register for it at the expo only.
The finish line was just around and corner and that bothered me, but we were able to pick up about 10 more people in the last .2. I measured 26.55 on my garmin and I think that was because of all my weaving around people. So if I hadn't have done that I would have only been about 3 minutes short of a pr. But I was 6 minutes short of my all time pr and that was set 3yrs ago. I was 10 minutes faster that st george marathon last year. And this is my second fastest overall. We had sprinkles most of the way and good little down pour for a couple of minutes. But I don't think it was as bad as the st georgers had.......he he
looking at results online I finished ahead of 33 percent, and 44 percent of the females.
My race pace to 10k was 5.0 and from 10K to half 4.7, half to 21 4.3, then 21 to finish 4.5 | 