Scholarship table
Ran a sub 2hr half (1hr 50), maintained my pace through to 15mi where I completely fell off. I think the week and a half lost in training (especially the 15mi & 21 mi long runs) really hit hard there. All the same I ran my first marathon 4:30. After years of Boxing, Hurling, Lacrosse, Hockey and wrestling I can say without a doubt this was the most pain I'd even been in.
I fell apart around mile 11 Saturday in Louisville and gave some thought to dropping out. But I’m stubborn and didn’t want to throw away the money I spent to travel there. So I pushed through very slowly and managed to finish somehow. That was state 14 for me and not sure yet about when/if for state 15. Things went very badly for this race so have to try to figure some things out before deciding to do this again.
Physically? Mentally? Combo? It can be brutal sometimes. Way to gut it out though, that’s an accomplishment in itself.
Way to stick with it and finish!