Wednesday 1
Good news, I found my rec specks. Bad news, we got a heat warning notification from the marathon today.
Greenway Quarters x 6
1:49.2, 1:46.1, 1:44.9, 1:45.0, 1:42.1, 1:43.7
I felt pretty good but had some issues. Today it's my right side, foot, hip, and lower back.
After 4 months of rehab and marathon training the journey is finally nearing it’s pinnacle. I can’t say I’m as trained as I would like to be, but I don’t think I could have done much more. I felt limited the entire training cycle my Achilles and knee issues and consider just getting to the start line a significant accomplishment. Recently I added a new issue to my issues list, migraines or something causing vision aura.Thursday 2
I have great respect for anyone who does marathon training alone. If Justin wasn’t in this with me I don’t think I would have made it.
So, the final journey begins. We leave Justin’s home late morning. The trip to Savannah was uneventful until we got to Spartanburg. It was 1:00 or 1:30 and we were all hungry. It was decided that we would find something downtown. Almost immediately after getting off the interstate I started getting the vision aura. It was a challenge to see, but we made it. After lunch at Deli and Doughnuts. Lunch and a couple Advil I was over the aura. I was drained and Pat had to drive us for a ways while I tried to nap.
We arrived at the hotel on Montgomery Street in the Historical section of Savannah around 6:30. After settling in to our room we went walking and had a nice dinner at the Savannah Seafood Shack. I had the low-country boil which was a little heavy in sausages but I enjoyed it. After dinner we walked some more but we were tired and decided to go to bed early.
Friday 3
This morning we had breakfast in the hotel where we meet a couple from Canada who are in town for the Rock N Roll Half and 5k. Meeting new people/runners is one of the best things about these races.It’s a short walk to the river front where we take a ferry to the Convention Center for packet pickup. I would rate this expo 3.5 of 5. I didn’t find anything to purchase other than a few Honey Stingers for pre-race fuel and a pair of CEP socks. We ate lunch at the Cotton Exchange. I had the boneless pork chops with slaw and sweet potato fries.
We were trying to carb, which seems difficult for someone with celiacs. I wanted pasta for dinner but couldn’t fins a gluten free Italian restaurant and I got their rice noodles. It wasn’t bad, but I could have done better.
In bed early for a 5 a.m. wakeup call.
Saturday 4
Savannah RnR Marathon
3:59:42
13 Age Group
259 Overall
15 weeks of training in the hot an humid weather of east Tennessee hopefully has us ready for today’s race. Up at 5:00 and eating breakfast of PBJ and oat meal.
They moved the race up 10 minutes due do projected high temps.
I felt great early and I managed a 3:50 pace for 20 miles, slowing a bit in miles 19 and 20. After 20 my quads broke down. I limped in with a time of 3:59. I was 13 in my age group. Overall, I was very proud of my effort.
Justin didn’t didn’t have a great race, everything that could go wrong pretty much went wrong for him. His right foot blistered early and then his left hamstring cramped up. He was very disappointed but even with all that went wrong he still finished in 4:40. Very impressive!
Fitz and Tantrums were awesome.
We limped back to the hotel to clean up, then we ubered to the river front for dinner at Huey’s. Cajun cuisine.
We met a guy said he was a friend of John Bingham of the Penguin Chronicles. His words of wisdom were “it’s a marathon.” I wish I would had gotten his name. He was a Heavy Metal recipient for running 15 (or 13) RnR half marathons. GOALS!
15 weeks of training in the hot an humid weather of east Tennessee hopefully has us ready for today’s race. Up at 5:00 and eating breakfast of PBJ and oat meal.
They moved the race up 10 minutes due do projected high temps.
I felt great early and I managed a 3:50 pace for 20 miles, slowing a bit in miles 19 and 20. After 20 my quads broke down. I limped in with a time of 3:59. I was 13 in my age group. Overall, I was very proud of my effort.
Justin didn’t didn’t have a great race, everything that could go wrong pretty much went wrong for him. His right foot blistered early and then his left hamstring cramped up. He was very disappointed but even with all that went wrong he still finished in 4:40. Very impressive!
Fitz and Tantrums were awesome.
We limped back to the hotel to clean up, then we ubered to the river front for dinner at Huey’s. Cajun cuisine.
We met a guy said he was a friend of John Bingham of the Penguin Chronicles. His words of wisdom were “it’s a marathon.” I wish I would had gotten his name. He was a Heavy Metal recipient for running 15 (or 13) RnR half marathons. GOALS!
Sunday 5
My quads are possibly as sore as they have ever been. Going from sitting or lying to standing is a major issue. Curbs and stairs were a major undertaking.Woke in a hot sweat and had a minor panic attack.
