a long 13 miles
this weekend, i ran the second half of the san francisco marathon. you could do the whole thing, or either one of the two halves. my other 2 "friends named megan" ran the first half together, but i toughed out the second half on my own. and all that really means is that megan & megan are more hardcore than me - their race started at 5:20am, whereas my half didn't start until 8:15.
anyways, here is the course map:
>> san francisco marathon course map
my time was over a minute better than the last 1/2 marathon i did, back in hyannis, ma in 2003. so i guess technically this means i set a PR! but can you compare them like that? they were totally different races. and i was in totally different shape. and the weather was totally different. oh well.
yesterday, i finished in 1:53:04, so just under 2 hours. i averaged about 8:37/mile, and placed 133 out of 917 women. can't complain. my new teammates were soooo super fast though - i'm still shocked about it. there were 5 women from the impalas in the top 10! they averaged around 6:14/mile! yikes! i can smell the rubber burning off their shoes.
anyways, here is the course map:
>> san francisco marathon course map
my time was over a minute better than the last 1/2 marathon i did, back in hyannis, ma in 2003. so i guess technically this means i set a PR! but can you compare them like that? they were totally different races. and i was in totally different shape. and the weather was totally different. oh well.
yesterday, i finished in 1:53:04, so just under 2 hours. i averaged about 8:37/mile, and placed 133 out of 917 women. can't complain. my new teammates were soooo super fast though - i'm still shocked about it. there were 5 women from the impalas in the top 10! they averaged around 6:14/mile! yikes! i can smell the rubber burning off their shoes.
posted by megan at
6:23:00 PM
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If there weren't super fast older women with better bodies than those of us in our twenties, what would we have to aspire to?!
Congrats on making the team by the way!
hey m - awesome about the team! one of these days i too will get serious about running and get some coaching/teammates.
in the meantime, i'm totally psyched about the boston half marathon in october and slowly gearing up for another marathon soon....maybe paris in the spring!
-s
Wow, I never realize how far a marathon is until I see a map of the route. When I was in San Fran in January we did the 49 mile scenic drive of the area and it covered most of the same spots as your race. (Except we went up on that hill with the figure 8 road).
I'm so impressed by your hardcore running.
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