My Best Marathon ever! -Part one
Granted it was only my second, but still. My moving time was really close to what was predicted by recent half(2:25), at 5:37 by one of the online calculators.
This trip I had a terrible time sleeping. Even though I tried to go to bed like at 7:30 with a wake up at 2:30 which in theory would be a solid 7 hours, I mostly tossed and turned. I tried to convince myself that just laying quietly would bestow rest, but alas when awoke my Garmin gave me a battery of 15. I didn’t even take a picture of my flat lay. In fact, I did a horrible job taking any pictures this whole trip. I got up got dressed, ate a banana and a protein cookie. Brought graham crackers to eat in the corral and packed my little Nathan water bottle backpack full to the brim with fuel on the course. For this training season, I really upped how much fuel I ate before/during/after runs. It really did make a world of difference. It was hard to do at first, because I began running to lose weight and it felt contrary to eat back calories. Now I eat something roughly every 45 minutes (tried to time them with water stops) I rotated through Maurten 100, e gels, and gu roctane.
The wait in the corral went pretty fast I felt, and I loved the dapper dans singing the national anthem.
I decided to not stop for photos until after the castle, Last year I got so hot and even though it wasn’t supposed to be very hot this year I wanted to try and get lots of dark miles in. And you can never tell with Florida weather as we all know. I tend to just zone out during running and nothing much of interest happened to me. I was pleased that it wasn’t nearly as crowded as the half of the half. I love running down main street and am so thankful for all of the supporters.
I think I counted 4 uneaten gu-s etc. by this point. My little scavenger heart wants to stop and pick them up so badly, but its hard to stop at a dime’s notice with people around you. Not like my training runs. My first photo stop was Tiana and Louie.
I am so excited for the new Tiana ride right before the castle. After the castle is for me when it started to rain, at first a little then a lot. I was sad as I passed the set up for Rapunzel, and was regretting my skipping of all the stops if it didn’t stop raining. I did see jogging jack sparrow during the rain and am so impressed that he runs all that way with his costume. It must be so heavy wet. I was very pleased I wore a visor.