| Name |
Time |
Pace |
Placing |
Div |
| Jason Grose |
5:29:06 |
12:33 |
12677 |
1422 |
My
first Marine Corps Marathon and arguably my worst marathon
ever. I had just traveled cross country with my family,
ate a lot of bad food and good food (family) and didn't
train for weeks. Then I got in town and after three days
of unpacking and getting only hours of sleep each night,
showed up to the start line exhausted.
There’s
a bright side to everything, right? Here are the “bright
side” highlights of the marathon:
That
about rounds it out.
I
set a P.W. (personal worst) and I knew I wasn't ready for
the marathon. Everything was cool for the first ten miles,
clocking a 9 minute pace, but then the cramps hit…and
never went away. Add in the stomach problems, humidity,
and heat and you got me stumbling over the finishing line
at a miserable 5 hours and 29 minutes. Ouch. It sucks when
you hit survival mode at mile 10.
I’ll
write more about the race on my page but if there is one
more positive thing I can say about the race it’s
that I will be able to tell everyone that I improved an
hour and a half in one year.
When
I got home, I was understandably destroyed mentally, physically,
emotionally, and spiritually. If this gives you any idea
of the rest of the night, I will wait to hook up my high
speed internet until tomorrow.
