I am recovering better than after St. George, in terms of muscle wear-and-tear and soreness. I think St. George is just harder on the body due to the downhill. I did not run today, but walked with Stacy over to the gym, where I did about 15 minutes on the elliptical easy. I also did a few weights and chin-ups, but nothing strenuous. I will start running again on Thursday, but will just do elliptical until then.
Thanks everyone for the nice comments and links to photos of the race. They have posted 5K splits for all runners here. There is much fun to be had if you copy and paste the whole split table into Excel. Then you can sort by split to see how people moved up and down as the race progressed. Here is how my placing changed during the race: | Split | Place
| | 5k | 98th | | 10k | 98th | | 15k | 84th | | 20k | 89th | Half Marathon
| 90th | | 25k | 87th | | 30k | 78th | | 35k | 62nd | | 40k | 55th | | Marathon | 53rd |
Using this I know now that I "passed" 37 people during the second half of the race, although this is inflated a bit due to people dropping out. When I factor out people like Abdi, Culpepper, Gilmore, Hussein, etc., it is more like 20 people, which is close to my original estimate. "Passing" someone who has dropped out is like a walk in baseball; it does not count as an "at bat". So that's fun with spreadsheets for today.
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