Join us today on Elevation Trail as we recap the key indicator as to whether you had a good race, or not. Gary harasses a former elite women’s runner. Gary does a dramatic reading of another finisher’s race report. Gary has an answering machine in his house. Tim… Well, Tim is training for an Insane Inflatable 5k. Hope you enjoy.
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A guy just ahead of Gary had a very different pacing strategy, kicking off with a 4:30 mile!
http://m.runnersworld.com/boston-marathon/who-was-the-dad-leading-the-boston-marathon-at-mile-one?page=single#
That’s flippin’ AWESOME! Fast dude.
love his quote at the finish “That was horrible.” I can imagine..he didn’t exactly coast after the 4:30.
I liked the color commentator’s take on this guy. He said, ” you know what happens to this guy in a few miles?… Someone hands him a piano.”
Looks like he ran his first 5k in 16:18, then had a couple +25 min 5ks in there.
Amateurs.
I too ran past the marine Gary mentioned. His neck was as big as my quad, hell maybe my waist. Biggest dude running I’ve ever seen.
FYI I didn’t eat the onion rings till after the marathon, damn they were good. When I got hurt I completely gave up & threw in the towel diet wise. 3 weeks training with a long run of 10 miles & it wasn’t my fastest marathon but It was the most enjoyable one to date(except for the hypothermia).
I couldn’t believe how big that guy was. He was, like, “blocking out the sun” big. He must have went out REALLY fast because he was going backward just as fast at mile 15.