I will write more about this Sunday. I just got back to St. George. Descent race, had issues with shooting pain in my toes of the left foot for the last approx. 4 miles. They cleared up the last 1/4 mile.......They could have waited to hurt til the last mile and I could have slugges through it. I missed my BQ in the last 5 miles of the race....got a bit tired at mile 20 but still did okay, a little slower than I had planned but I had done better on the first half and those minutes offset the slower miles in the canyon. With 5 to go all I needed to do was keep a 8 minute pace for BQ and then the toes went off.......... beautiful day!
Monday: Finally felt like looking at my splits:
8:13/ 7:53/ 7:39/ 8:11/ 7:34/ 7:50/ 7:42/ 7:59---59 seconds ahead of my plan, feeling great!
7:58/ 8:13/ 8:13/ 8:24/ 8:25---- 2:31 ahead of my goal at this point, feeling good, getting a bit tired but I should half way through a marathon.
8:43/ 9:28/ 8:30/ 9:06/ 8:32/ 8:51/ 8:59--- This section was not what I had expected. After the hill at 14 it seemed like it was continuous hills really slowing me down. Even with that I was still 7 seconds ahead of my plan. So all is great because I have the down hill section....
Top of the damn, damn: 8:51/ 8:59/ 9:37/ 8:13/ 8:09/ 9:38--- I am 1:51 ahead of my plan at the top of the damn.....getting excitied.... tried to let the legs go, hoping to have 7:45 for the next few miles. Legs just didn't have anything left. A couple of miles that were okay but I did a lot of walking in this stretch. I was so looking forward to this section to have some good splits. I got to the bottom of the canyon and I am now 2:53 behind schedule, knowing the BQ is not happening today. For the last couple of miles my left foot atarted having sharp pains, electrical shocks each time I planted.
9:38/ 10:06/ 9:54/ 8:09--- I finally decided to do some walking and try to finish respectfully. Then they really hurt, but my mind was not strong enough to push through the last 3 miles.
One day I will figure things out and have a great marathon where the body says "today is the day let's do this thing".
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