Race day. Had everything ready to go. I packed a bit, and I’m glad I did. That includes rain gear. Didn’t need the pants or jacket since it was 61 degrees at the 6:30 race start time. I did pack into the CamelBack the rain jacket just in case.
The deluge (and I mean utter deluge) started maybe a mile into the race. We crossed three large bridges in a nasty lightening storm. Wow. It poured for about 20 minutes and all the roads turned into rivers and lakes. Except for running through big metal framing with lightening all around, it didn’t bother me one bit. Liquid coolant. I’ll take it.
I felt pretty good throughout the race, especially in the later miles. Yeah, I was tired and things were aching a bit, but I was pushing and didn’t feel at all like the energy was gone. Very different than the Hyannis Marathon in March.
Today’s race was the Cincinnati “Flying Pig” Marathon. Time was 4:26:48, which was a 10:11 pace. The pace in the first 6.4 miles was 10:29 because of soooooo many people on narrow, flooded on/off ramps. The people running the half didn’t split off until about mile 8. The last half pace was 10:03 and the last mile was 9:43.