No, I will not be running the Marathon next month. I'm either not going to run or I'm going to try to switch to the 1/2. My ITB hurts and it started hurting at mile 4. And I didn't meet my time goal of under 2 hours :(
But let me talk about the things I did like about this race. I got an awesome hat, awesome matching tech long sleeve shirt and it was very organized at the packet pickup. And the medal is freaking cool! My fiancee wants to steal it! It looks kinda like the motor speedway and the necklace part is checkered. My brother was there with me at the start and left me! He finished 1:57.
What I did not like was the amount of people that were there. OMG! I wanted to die. I felt like I was in a grocery store. Indy had a good system for the corrals. Your corral was actually placed on your running number...BUT you have to tell the truth when signing up. I'm sorry there is no way some of these walkers should have been ahead of me. So mad. Then some runners would slowly cut you off. I"m like hello! Just do it quick and go away so I don't step all over your heals!
I was really surprised with the amount of walkers. I"m mean good for them. But stay in the back! The indy mini does a lap around the 500 race track. OMG that was the longest 2.5 miles of my life. It is basically the mid point by the time you get there. I got some cool pics (I sorta gave up on my goal once my ITB started to hurt and people continuted to walk around me) with my camera phone. I just have to send them to someone so they can email them to me(I don't have a cord to connect my phone to the computer) Coming out of the track was a bottle neck b/c they had more water and we all had to funnel into a smaller street...kinda not cool again with the walkers!
There were lots of water stations! Sooo many! I swear they were more frequent than every mile.
Oh did I mention it was sooooo windy! and we didn't get to the start line till about 20 minutes after the first corral! The clock at mile one said 28 minutes! OMG!
Well I'm going to go to sleep and enjoy the rest of the weekend and try to decide what to do about my training for the rest of the month. I hope my brother still runs the full. I would love to cheer him on...but I just won't make it.
I didn't know if I put my stats in the frb part right so here they are
| Distance |
HALF MAR |
| Clock Time |
2:29:25 |
| Chip Time |
2:11:04 |
| Gender Place |
4567 / 16574 |
| Division Place |
1028 / 2960 |
| Age Grade |
50.2% |
| Oall |
12924 |
| Ctz |
US |
| 5M |
50:53 |
| 10M |
1:40:17 |
| Division |
FEMALES 25-29 |
| Divt |
2960 |
| Sext |
16574 |
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