OT: Austin Marathon

[Lisa Hlava]

Congratulations, George!

I'm extremely impressed by your progress... makes me wish I could do  
the same, but my knees would never allow it. You'll have to send us  
some pics of the new you. From everything you've written, I don't think  
I'd recognize you.

Keep your joints happy.

Peace,
Mark
On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:16 PM, geo3 at earthlink.net wrote:

> Hey everyone.
>
> Just thought I'd give y'all an update.
>
> The half-marathon went great.  I fininshed in exactly my goal time of  
> 2:00.
> I has hoping to finih with a couple of minutes in-hand and was on  
> track at
> mile at with 3 minutes in-hand.  That is where the course turned  
> brutal.  A
> series of nasty hills, one right after the other, culminating with a  
> single
> 75' climb at mile 12.  It about broke my heart.  But, I kept running  
> all
> the way up it (if you can call it running when it's that slow).  That  
> took
> out anything I had left for a sprint to the finish.
>
> Somehow I managed to kick just a bit at mile 13 for the 0.1 mile left.
> That was at the start of the finishing shoot.  Thankfully I was able to
> find that last little bit of kick.  I finished with 2 seconds left to  
> spare
> and still make my goal.  Yeah, it was THAT close.
>
> But, I made it.  And that was big.  I was told by my coach and an elite
> runner that on any other course I'd probably finish 7-13 minutes  
> quicker.
> This puts Boston in sight.  It's way off on the horizon and barely  
> visible,
> but it's there.  Now I begin more serious training.  I need to  
> increase my
> weekly miles by 50% at least.  Also, my workouts will become more
> disciplined in that some days will be very slow, some will be at target
> pace, and some will be significantly faster than that.
>
> Not bad for a formerly fat old man.
>
> George Roffe
> Turd Rex
> Dead 91 SE-R
>
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