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After my 1/2 in October, I decided that perhaps I was ready for a full. With my 1:49 finish time of 13.1 miles I planned a finish time for a full 26.2 of around 4 hours.
My training went well until I had to do the LONG runs (20 miles and above) where I usually ‘hit the wall’ somewhere past 18 miles…
Julia saw how miserable I was training for this distance (and even had to pick me up from an abandoned training run), and made me promise that this would be my first and last run…
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Race day went amazingly great (exactly on target pace) from miles 0-20, but went to a complete crashing halt from miles 20-24, where all I could do was walk-jog-limp my way through…
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Learned my lesson. I’m proud to have finished a full marathon, but I think I’ll stick with improving my times with HMs from now on!