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Originally Posted by BWillie
When you run a marathon how fast is your avg mile? What percent of the time are you actually running or are you actually running the entire time? I cant even imagine what someones legs would feel like the next day or after the race if they ran the whole thing. Reminds me of the How I met Your Mother episode when Barney runs the NY Marathon and has no problems but later he cant even use his legs to get off the subway and gets robbed.
Too competitive. I can't imagine doing something and just zoning out and not trying to get better everyday.
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My last marathon was the Flying Pig in Cincinnati last May and that was my slowest by quite a bit. It took me 5:42:02 to finish, with my average mile being 12:54 and my average moving pace being 12:26, as there was 9 minutes where I wasn't moving, taking a potty break. According to my Garmin, I ran about 4 hours and 52 minutes and walked about 41 minutes. That race was very hot and humid, and I ended up doing run-walk-run intervals for most of the last 7 miles or so.
I ended up getting pretty beat up by that race, as it aggravated an IT band injury and the heat took me several weeks to recover from, something I'd never had to deal with before. It sent my estimated VO2 Max from 44 down to 42 and I've only just this past week gotten it up to 43. My training for the KC Marathon has been going well and I'm hoping to get in the vicinity of my slowish time from last year. I keep getting fatter with every new marathon, too, about 5 to 10 pounds heavier.
The stiff legs from a marathon are mostly amusing. They clear up after a day or three, and of course you get to explain it away by bragging that you just finished a marathon.