Hilo!
Second marathon. Complete. No question about it. Unless that question is, Why?
The run was absolutely beautiful, but the airport road will forever be burned in my memory. It started about half way and continued through mile 17, it was the hottest part of the race. It drained me and I couldn't recover before I hit the wall. Which is a shame, because the road from mile 20 to 25 was beautiful. And if I hadn't slowed down so much I could have broken 4 hours.
4:16:29. Better than 16 minutes off my previous time. At this rate of improvement I have to run 4 more marathons to qualify for Boston.
At mile 24 I asked myself, do I enjoy this?
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Congrats Tom! Even without the difficulties of the Airport Road, that's quite an impressive time. Best of luck on trying to qualify for Boston... that is.... if the answer to your Mile 24 question was "Yes!" OK, or at least, "Well, it beats getting hit in the head with a baseball bat." :o)
- Jason
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