Marathon Tips?

have you ever seen anybody ever crap their pants while running.  or one of the water cup people trip a runner. 

In regard to the second question: no.

In regard to the first question: yes.

Grete Waitz lost control of her bowels while racing the New York City Marathon, continued running, and won.


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walkonby wrote:
have you ever seen anybody ever crap their pants while running.  or one of the water cup people trip a runner. 

Don't drop dead.

Sincerely,

Jim Fixx

I decided fairly last minute to still run on Sunday.  Gave a try-out run of 18 miles last week and did alright; I had to walk a little bit, but I still knocked it out in 3 hours on the dot. 

Look for a guy wearing a Hot Snakes t-shirt (my lucky running shirt) and say hi or cheer me on or pick me up off the pavement and wipe the puke from my face.

I will be hanging out at Lorcom and Spout Run. Just look for the dude with the 190lb St. Bernard.

I didn't see ggw or his dog.

Very happy with my race. My 14th marathon, but my first since 2006. The fastest of my last 10, 30 minutes faster than 2006, and fastest since 1994.

Which is not to say I ran some sort of amazing race or anything. Hell, assuming I'm looking up the right name, it looks like nkotb beat me.

this missus clocked in at under 4 hours.  i am so amazed and proud of her.  i could barely keep up with her for the last five miles, after she had already run 21… crazy.  she's going to be some kind of sore tomorrow.  met up with her a miles 1, 4, 10, 15 and 21. 

dunno if it was the influence of yesterday's rally but there were some witty signs along the way.

thanks to earlier-than-announced road closures we were diverted into DC instead of parking at a friend's near the finish line, so we took metro to the start line.  after the race, the line to get in to rosslyn station stretched down the block so we decided to walk back to foggy bottom.  only low-point of the day.

what a gorgeous day for a marathon.  what a great weekend.

Yes, the Rosslyn Metro line sucked.

As did all the people who decided to meet their parties right after the finish line instead of at the family link-up, thus clogging up the exit area. It look me nearly an hour to walk the quarter (half?) mile from the finish to the family link-up.

Oh, and I forgot to mention the best part. About five feet after the finish line, I started projectile vomiting. Threw up probably six times in the span of two minutes. Sat down for ten minutes and was fine.

The dog got a little freaked by all the bicycles and noise from the spectators so we were hanging in the back. Perfect weather for the race. Made me sad I wasn't out there. A hearty congrats to the Fords, sweetcellette and nkotb.

As I mentioned here before, I skipped a lot of my long-distance training, but it turned out pretty well in the long run.  I had to walk a bit of this one (last time, I ran the entire distance), but dropped 10 minutes off my time; I came in at 4:02:24, so I'm pretty happy about that. 

This was my first Marine Corps, and I found it pretty badly organized compared to NYC.  I made the mistake of assuming (like NYC) that the start would have some energy drinks, bagels and food, but they didn't, so I started things off with almost nothing on my stomach.  Total rookie mistake.

And the lack of people on the course cheering you on fed into my walking, I think.  The times I needed the most cheering, there was practically no one on the course.  And given that SO much of it is a loop (literally a ton through Crystal City is just up and down the same street during the last 3 miles), it didn't really take your mind off how terrible your legs felt.  And just for the record, they feel terrible today.

nkotb wrote:
dropped 10 minutes off my time; I came in at 4:02:24, so I'm pretty happy about that. 

the course was actually 26.7 miles long, several people with GPS watches confirmed this.  so your 26.2 time was actually under 4:00.  congrats!

nkotb wrote:
And given that SO much of it is a loop (literally a ton through Crystal City is just up and down the same street during the last 3 miles), it didn't really take your mind off how terrible your legs felt. 

on our way in to crystal city the classic rock cover band were at the outro guitar solo of "comfortably numb", on the way out they started "teenage wasteland".  totally worked for me, but yeah - that crystal city in-and-out sucked.  it's not like that area is particularly interesting to look at in the first place, and they subject runners to it twice?  thanks, organizers.

sweetcell wrote:"teenage wasteland"

Baba O'Reilly

Looks like they're gone through 38% of the pictures and have started loading them to the site for purchase.  Thanks to those 6 photographers sitting in the middle of the course around the 18 mile mark or so (could've been much earlier), there seem to be some great shots of me almost running them over.

Two of the guys in that classic rock cover band live on my block. They were very happy to hear that you enjoyed them. Last year they were at Wisconsin and M. I told them that Crystal City was much better because everyone needs auditory motivation much more after mile 20 than after mile 3

definitely better at the 20.  also, they were at the top of the out-and-back in crystal city so we got to catch them twice - great positioning.  the missus was dreading the crystal city out-and-back, the music made it a tad more tolerable.  i was vaguely tempted to let her do the loop by herself while i hung out and listened to the band, and catch her on the way back from the loop.

but i decided the band wasn't worth sleeping on the couch for.  still, please give them a thumbs us from me.

Just a quick thank you to everyone in this thread who passed on tips for running, especially ggw, nkotb, godsshoeshine, Rhett & Celeste, Mobius, Grotty and PigIron…I'm sure there are more.

I finished my first half marathon this weekend and used a lot of the information that was in this thread.

Thanks again,

Smackie

what . . . none of my information was used?

walkonby wrote:
what . . . none of my information was used?

Well, I did run the whole time hoping to see someone crap themselves or get tripped by the water volunteers, but it ended up being a huge disappointment.

Heads up to my fellow runners…Marine Corps Marathon registration started today. Last year it sold out in six days.


This is the 20 year anniversary of my first marathon (NYC, 1991). I thought about doing NYC this year, but since it's a bitch to get into and the entry fee is around $200, I plotted something different. To celebrate 20 years of marathon running, I'm going to attempt to complete two marathons in the month of October 2011.

Happy 20 year anniversary!  How is the Marine Corps?  Good luck on your goal!