Not good at writing up race reports, but anyways, decided to do this run for a couple reason's. Its to raise money for the Alzheimer's society in my home town...as my mother is suffering from the disease...and this is the first year a marathon is held here locally. There were about a 1000 people registered for various distances, but only about 50 registered for the marathon! I returned from Seattle this week and came down with a respiratory flu so I struggled with that. I didn't feel good right from the start so my plan was to maintain an 8.0 minutes pace and hold it so I could at least match my best marathon time of 3:30. I kept the pace at around 7.55 average for the first 16 miles and then everything started to fall apart...I probably averaged around a 8.45 to 9.0 minutes pace for the last 10 miles. Not my best marathon but all things considered, it was ok. Miles 1-4... 7.56 5-8... 7.55 9-13... 7.56 14-16... 7.58 16-20.... 8.12 20-26.... 9.10
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