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Marathon Cont…

Posted on 28th September 2010
in Marathon training, Running
by Dragonfly

Here is were it starts to get dicey… you see I was so excited to be running and doing it with such ease. and I was running a nice 10 min mile pace. at the 13.1 mark I was at a nice 2 hours and 14 minutes 17 seconds. that is a such a perfect wonderful 1/2 time. I was looking at my watch thinking this means that the full in 4 hours and 30 seconds is so douable… WAHOOOO!!!!

But I took the wrong turn. and a running friend turned me around. But that means that I did that much extra. Know your course momma fly know your course. and since I wasnt paying attention… I am the one that lost out. I ended up following my friend which was fine but my nutrition was off by than as well. i was paying to much attention to beating my self up for the wrong turn that I got off schedual for my nutrition…

So buy the time I was here at mile 17… my mind was starting to go. “what mile is this?” I asked. Two dear friends Miss Forest and Sarah answered.. “mile 17! youve got this girl.”

I than got the call I had been thinking about from Jerry. “were are you?” and I told him “on my way up Lancashire hill. should be to you in about 50-60 minutes.” I was way off. WAY OFF!!! I wasnt to him for another 80 minutes. this is when I started to fail.

once up Lancashire hill. I could bairly make out the car place int he distance. and could see that there were people there. I knew it was my family but I needed to get in some nutrition. so I walked for the FIRST time in the marathon. I alowed myself one minute to walk while I got my nutrition in me and some water to wash it all down. and than I hear the foot steps of someone. and I never like that.

I started running right away…and this guy was so cool. he kept reasuring me that he was only doing 7 miles…

you are doing the WHOLE THING. you are AMAZING. just keep it up!

Mile 19 this is the one that I could’t get through in training without weeping and calling my husband…

and this hill took it out of me. no matter how much I trained for it. up and down… down and up.. it didnt prepare me for how it woudl KILL me to get up it after 19 miles of running… But my family was there and the girls ran with me keeping my spirits up and letting me know … your doing great momma. But you know … I noticed right here that the girls would start to run to only walk because I had slowed that much…

as I ran to mile 19 I kept singing a song it wasn’t a nice song.but it was all because of a picture of DYNAMITE I had in my pouch. you see 19 was the BIG WALL for me… and a friend passed me some virtual dynamite to blow through the wall. and I took it with me. * BEAMS * and so I was blowing up F***ING number 19 thats right not going to do you again. ect… and than Michelle came up on her bike and scared the pants off me catching me singing . LOL. together we made it to this at 20