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4 late miles with my dog

i've been running every night for a few miles with my dog and talking long walks on my work breaks.  hopefully all of that will help a bit keeping my legs moving for the marathon, but not overdoing it since it's too late for real progress before the big event.  i'm super excited to see the course & nervous at the same time. 

here's to winter 2011-12 and spring 2012 training that will be much more consistant! 

**changed my nickname from peaks to chris.  this site has become my favorite spot on the web (really i just browse the rss feeds when i'm bored) so i figure that i'll be using the site for quite a while. might as well use my real name...

I'm going to keep this short.  In summary,the SGM kicked my butt this year.  For the first 8 miles I stuck right to my plan, I was running faster than 9 min/miles. I took it easy up Veyo to save my energy for the 2nd half of the race.  At the 13.1 split I was at 2:12 (10:04 average) which wasn't great but I felt like I'd saved everything for the 2nd half.  At mile 15 my calf cramped up big time and didn't let up until around mile 17. By mile 20 my legs just gave up and walking and running were pretty much the same pace. I finished very very slowly. Bleh, no fun. I really smurfed up here, even though I've been planning on this race for a very long time.  Lesson learned, lack of training equals poor results. The organization of the race was great and I really liked the racing atmosphere.  Hopefully I will be much much more prepared for future races. 

~ Peaks/Chris