This will be a quick, short post. I'm just a bit tired. I ran the BMO Vancouver Marathon today.
Today I PB'd my half marathon time 2:01:36 - shaved almost 7 minutes!!
I also PB'd my full marathon time!!! 4:23:15 - chip time: 4:21:13!!! Over an hour my first marathon time was 5:32:19.
No 4:15 pace bunny showed up. I believe one was pulled from the half marathon bunny group at the last minute.
Seeing the 4:15 pace bunny gave me false hope. He was late. I found out when he called out that he was at 4:20 so I tried to jet. :-( I need to get a watch that works.
In running sometimes you have to make sacrifices. Today, I sacrificed my little pinky toenail. Wow! Never had that happen ever. What do I do?
Somewhere around Stanley Park they played one of my favourite song, "Kids" by MGMT. Made me think of skiing, snow, powder, air and lots of speed.
Along the run some water stations ran out of cups I skipped most of them except for one where I asked the lady to pour the water from the jug into my mouth.
Brought 4 gels, ate them all and one more from the Gu gel stations. Wanted to try the chocolate mint out. It was pretty good!
Great DJ around the 33km mark.
Edit: Strangest site during run: I passed a guy running in a robe holding out a cross while running in Stanley Park. I passed him again later on the way back towards the finish too.
