It may seem that I am mad/upset about my race because I haven't written anything yet 0 but I am actually pretty pleased. We had an awesome group for most of the race that really helped out. I am just a tiny bit bummed that the wheels came off for the last 4, but that is life. I will write the full report when I get some time. (Mana 105.25) I was looking back at this report for this year's marathon (2012) and saw that I never came back to update. Pretty lame that I never did (note to self: even when upset about a race, write about it for future reference). So I'll just add in now - a year later - the race had a good group for much of it. It was very hot and we knew that there would be a lot of roadkill. So we started more conservatively and slowly picked off people hitting the half just seconds under 1:16. Before we knew it, we were headed up Winchester and in the top 10. Ben V. went on to take 3rd, Justin took 5th (I think) and I faded back a bit through the twist and a few people picked me off and I dropped back to 12th. I guess that I just why I was a little upset; I had a sure top 10 in my grasp until the last mile or two and just didn't hold it very well at all.
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