You couldn’t have asked for a better day! Actually the perfectness began the night before when Glenn made the most delicious eggplant parm for Michelle and my pre-race dinner. After sufficient carbo loading, we woke up Sunday morning and we ready to go! We each had our own little pre race rituals……Michelle needed blueberries and a banana and I needed a bagel with cream cheese from Dunkie’s. Once that was taken care of we were off to Hyannis to get our numbers and run 26.2 miles. We had good timing and were able to park right across from the hotel where it was starting. It was absolutely gorgeous outside! That is until we got out of the car. It was so cold and windy! We were a bit concerned, but didn’t really have time to worry about it as we had to get our numbers and race goodies (t-shirt, snack bar, and some pamphlets) and get back to the car. We were numbers 85 and 86, obviously we had been pretty excited about signing up for the race (we signed up in November I think). So we dropped our stuff off at the car and got our timing chips securely on our shoes and our numbers securely on our outfits and were ready to race….
The race started probably around 10:10AM and the weather was absolutely gorgeous! We crossed the starting line and the countdown to mile 26.2 began. The marathon consisted of two 13 mile loops and the race was also a 10km and half marathon. The first few miles were pretty crowded but we managed to carve out a place for ourselves and stick to a pretty consistent pace. It took about 6 or so miles to finally get in the groove. You know…..the place where you legs just move and you feel like you could go forever. The first loop was pretty uneventful, consisting of basically an 8 mile warm up and then 5 more miles of running. It was funny coming to the end of the first loop. Everyone was yelling “you’re almost done” because about three quarters of the people were only running the half. Then the half marathon people turn into the parking lot of the hotel and us few marathoners just ran right by and started up loop number 2.
Loop number 2 was very different from loop 1. Shell and I thought it would be terrible, having to run the same loop over again. It ended up being fine because I’m pretty sure by the time we got to the second loop we had completely forgotten running the first loop haha…so much so that we were actually concerned that we had missed a turn or something! No worries though, we managed to stay on track for the whole time. The miles in the second loop seemed to go by much faster too amazingly! My parents were also out for the second loop! By then the roads had opened so the paparazzi (aka my parents) could follow the route and snap photos all along the route! It was like nice little surprises every few miles! Mile 14 photos, mile 15 advil, mile 17 more photos and some power gel, miles 18-23 just keep running, miles 23-25 music and sing-a-long, and before we knew it we were done!! Finishing time: 4 hours 44 minutes and 27 seconds! I think I even got a little sunburn on my nose! That’s what a perfect day for running it was! The post race meal consisted of a cup of chili, turkey club sandwich, French fries, and a big Miller Lite followed by another hearty helping of Glenn’s eggplant parm 4 hours later!
The race started probably around 10:10AM and the weather was absolutely gorgeous! We crossed the starting line and the countdown to mile 26.2 began. The marathon consisted of two 13 mile loops and the race was also a 10km and half marathon. The first few miles were pretty crowded but we managed to carve out a place for ourselves and stick to a pretty consistent pace. It took about 6 or so miles to finally get in the groove. You know…..the place where you legs just move and you feel like you could go forever. The first loop was pretty uneventful, consisting of basically an 8 mile warm up and then 5 more miles of running. It was funny coming to the end of the first loop. Everyone was yelling “you’re almost done” because about three quarters of the people were only running the half. Then the half marathon people turn into the parking lot of the hotel and us few marathoners just ran right by and started up loop number 2.
Loop number 2 was very different from loop 1. Shell and I thought it would be terrible, having to run the same loop over again. It ended up being fine because I’m pretty sure by the time we got to the second loop we had completely forgotten running the first loop haha…so much so that we were actually concerned that we had missed a turn or something! No worries though, we managed to stay on track for the whole time. The miles in the second loop seemed to go by much faster too amazingly! My parents were also out for the second loop! By then the roads had opened so the paparazzi (aka my parents) could follow the route and snap photos all along the route! It was like nice little surprises every few miles! Mile 14 photos, mile 15 advil, mile 17 more photos and some power gel, miles 18-23 just keep running, miles 23-25 music and sing-a-long, and before we knew it we were done!! Finishing time: 4 hours 44 minutes and 27 seconds! I think I even got a little sunburn on my nose! That’s what a perfect day for running it was! The post race meal consisted of a cup of chili, turkey club sandwich, French fries, and a big Miller Lite followed by another hearty helping of Glenn’s eggplant parm 4 hours later!
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