26.2 miles | 4:32:59 | 10:22 pace | St. George Marathon
ST. GEORGE BITES! Well, that's how my report would have started if I'd have posted it Saturday.
As it is, two days later, I'm not quite so critical.
No,
my time didn't magically improve by 45 minutes, nor did the pain and
suffering I endured diminish (well, not very much anyways...), but my
perspective on it has changed. I think a good nights sleep and losing
the intense migraine may have helped with that.
Anywhooo...
At
the start just when we finally were approaching the actual start line, I
realized I needed the port-a-potty and dashed over and used the ones in
the elite corral and so my actual time was 7 minutes off the clock
time. I didn't want to even look at the splits on my Garmin because the
way I felt at the finish I 'knew' that from mile 9 on I had been
running 30 minute miles. This morning, Sunday, I finally reviewed the
splits and found them to be much better than anticipated. Still, from
14 on I did a lot of walking and limping and self-motivating. Really
could have used some self-medicating but all I had was Tylenol and that
just wasn't cutting it.
At TOU two weeks prior, that I ran with
my daughter, at some point I kicked my right ankle with my left foot
pretty good. Never bothered me then, but in the days after it was
pretty sore. But then it wasn't and all seemed fine. By mile 13 at St.
George, however, it started to bother me some--and then I slightly
brushed it with my other foot again and you'd have thought I had been
shot! OK, it wasn't quite that bad, but it hurt. By mile 21 it was
feeling better but all my energy had been sapped and I struggled with an
odd run/walk thing that eventually got me to the finish
4:32:59. 
15th St. Geezy and 50th overall.
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