Well this was the slowest and worst marathon I've ever run. I knew going in that I wasn't in very good shape. However I do feel that I'm in better shape than what my time ended up being. I woke up and had two pieces of toast and felt ok. However, similar to Utah Valley Marathon I felt sick on the bus ride up to the start line. It was fun seeing everybody at the start. I had a plan to go out real easy and I actually felt like I followed that plan pretty good. My main goal was to try to break 3:10. I made it to the point where I dropped out last year just above Snow Canyon, pulled over and threw-up for the first time. I made it ok to Winchester but then stopped again at the top of the hill and threw-up a second time. Also, my left hip started locking up I've had hip problems especially on the left side since high school, when I injured it my junior year. I also started getting some major pain in my feet in the arches, for the most part my PF hasn't been that bad this year, but it flared up around mile 18. Around mile 21 I saw Mike on the side of the road. I stopped and walked with him for probably 5 to 10 minutes, he was struggling with chest pain, so I was concerned, he told me he was going to drop so after talking with him for a bit I continued on. I basically knew at this point any chance of 3:10 was already out the window so I was fine with the time I spent walking with Mike. Anyway, once I made it to town things were a struggle. I stopped again at mile 24 and threw-up in some guys garbage can. Also around this mile a lady was sitting there handing out stuff and she gave me a small bottle of coke, this actually tasted pretty good and helped calm the stomach a little. I was able to shuffle along the last few miles. Once I got the park it was more vomiting and just feeling sick. Anyway not a very good day for me. However, I was happy to see many of my friends have good races. Bill had a great day and missed breaking 3 hours by 8 seconds, still in my mind I think he is a sub 3 guy. Most of the other guys from the club ran good. I didn't stay very long at the park as I was still feeling pretty sick. I drove home, but had to pull over 1 time to... well you guessed it throw-up again. A day later thinking about things I don't plan to do another marathon until I've lost about 20 pounds and feel like I'm in sub 3 shape. There really is no reason I can't get back to where I was at in 2006 through 2009.
1-7:26 2-7:30 3-7:07 4-7:03 5-7:14 6-6:43 7-6:52 8-8:30 took a little longer at the aid station losing the extra shirt before heading up Veyo 9-7:22 10-7:11 11-7:31 12-7:14 13-7:17 Half 1:35:50 14-7:05 15-6:50 16-6:58 17-7:00 18-8:06 19-9:39 20-8:57 21-11:20 I think this is where I stopped with Mike 22-9:38 23-9:32 24-10:04 25-14:35- this was really bad, it just hurt to run at all 26-10:25 .2-2:21 3:37:44 (8:17 avg) So looking at the splits a decent race up until about mile 18, then the wheels fell off.
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