Where to start. Well the plan and goal was to run with Tom Slick as long as I could. And hopefully do better then what I did a month ago with Kathie. The good thing going into this race was that I was feeling a lot better then Ogden. And he was wanting to run a 3:25-30ish. I figured I should of been able to do that. The only problem was just the long runs again or should I say the lack of them. So went to pick up the packet Fri night and was very surprised when Aleesssaaaa was the one giving out my packet. I could hardly recognize her since she has lost some weight. And looked really good. Got my packet and went home. Called it early and since this race was going to be a early one with a start time of 5:30. And buses at 3:30. Picked up Slick at 2:45 and got to the the towne center mall around 3:30. Met up with a few people to ride up to the start. MarcE, Dale, Slick, BeMo and Maynard. So had a good ride up with Maynard. The start of this was very crazy. The bus almost missed the turn off. And had to turn around. Got to where we thought we were suppose to be. But no one else was there. Which seemed odd. There was a bunch of PoP and they started up 2 fire pits. We hung out there for a while till they said we had 30 mins to get up to the start. What??? so we trekked up the road further and found the starting line. And next problem was the PoP there. They were like right next to the starting line ok maybe 15 yds from it. But it was a big mess. And must of started the race late to get people up to the right spot. And it started at 5:45. Right when it should of started we got our first bit of rain. But was also able to run into a few more people at the start. Like Canyon, RivertonPaul, Chadl, Dace and Mike Warren. The temp was great the rain wasn't really a issue and all the wind we had seemed to have been a good tailwind. Slick needed to use the PoP at mile 5 and so I found a good spot too. That MarcE came and kicked me out of.:( It was the only pit stop I needed so that was good. Paces were pretty good up then and then ran into Aleeeessaaa again at the aid station. Had a great time running with Slick. We had Teena all of a sudden pop up on us too. In the first few miles. And we got past by Teena, Marc and Canyon at this point. And only got back up with Canyon. We could come close to Teena a few more times at Aid Station but she was flying down the downhills. We saw Andy also manning a aid station around mile 7 or 9. All the aid station were great. And we only had problem later with the mile markers being off. Had to reset my watch later once it got really bad. I am really sure that I didn't do a 7:34 on that one mile. So lost Slick for a mile or so and met back up with him after coming out of the canyon. And then he lost me at the aid station at mile 21 while I was working on my shot bloks. And I was running out of steam here. Teena then really started to turn into a small dot on that long few last miles that seemed to so go on forever. With the road just going on and on straight ahead. And the overpass close to the finish was rough in the last .5 of the race. But the good thing I knew MrsFit was at the finish somewhere. The problem was going to be finding her or so I thought. Of course as I came across the line guess who was there handing out medals.??? Oh yeah!! My Sweetie. So that was great and Slick was there waiting for me. It was great. He ended up placing in his AG which was really cool. And I felt really good with my final time. Improved about 36 mins from the race 4 weeks ago. And my 4 or 5th best marathon. So its all good. Well I will finish this a bit later. Going to go to a HoeDown with my 10 yr old daughter. It will be a fun date night.:) Mile 1 7:41 Mile 2 7:43 Mile 3 7:52 Mile 4 7:55 Mile 5 7:45 Mile 6 9:05 Mile 7 8:16 Mile 8 8:30 Mile 9 8:01 Mile 10 8:10 Mile 11 8:23 Mile 12 8:03 Mile 13 7:18
Mile 14 7:35 1:51
Mile 15 8:25 Mile 16 7:56 Mile 17 7:50 Mile 18 8:02 Mile 19 7:56 Mile 20 8:16 Mile 21 8:15 Mile 22 9:00 Mile 23 9:29 Mile 24 9:01 Mile 25 9:15 Mile 26 9:12 Mile 26.24 1:53(7:49 pace) TT 3:38:53 AP 8:16
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