“Marathons are hard”CIM 2025. 2:32:54

Warm up lol

CIM shake out

A winter wonderland

Truly enjoyed “the running ground”

I wanted to give myself some time to process this morning before writing my classic trev long write up. I went into today with the A goal of running 230-231 and knowing that at the very least I wanted to PR.  I accomplished the PR goal with a 69 second PR, which is the biggest PR I’ve ever had in the marathon and this was good ol marathon number 10. 
I was able to settle in with a good pack of 7-8 dudes through like 10/11 miles which honestly was mad fun and felt controlled and I was like damn today might be the day, this feels way better than at Boston. Then the pack merged with the bigger sub 230 pack around halfway and I got gapped a little but was still exactly on pace (came through in 7500). The CIM course is fast for sure but definitely tough and will beat your legs up pretty good. By about mile 18, I got my first calf tug and was like uh oh we need to be a little careful. Got to 20 and still relatively on pace but could feel the legs locking up and the calf tugging if I tried to push too hard. At that point I just tried to take it a mile at a time and tried to relax while keeping my foot on the gas as best as possible. I was trying to keep those final miles as close to 6 as possible knowing that even though 230 was out of the question a big PR was still on the table if I could just hold on. I pushed as hard as I could (things even started to get a little blurry during a race for the first time in a long time). Hit 40k and was just praying my body would hold on, last 600 was probably the most locked up my legs have ever felt in a marathon. Made those last finishing turns and saw the clock still with a 32 on it and pumped as hard as I could (it wasn’t fast) but I made it. Took me like 10 seconds to officially stop my watch cause my hands were frozen,  but I knew that I had finally broke away from my many 234/235s and was pumped to end the year with a big PR. I was offered a wheelchair lol but declined and made my way to find the fellas. Met GRC ex pat Paul Balmer during the race which although I wasn’t able to go with him, he did give me a friendly boost in the late teens. Also, s/o to my guy Charlie for being out there on  the course cheering! Found the guys by gear check and was so pumped to hear about all the PRs within the GRC crew, a bunch of big time performances and a great day for the club. 
In terms of how I feel about the race, I feel good about it and feel like I really left it all out there. Like I think in terms of what I could give today, I gave it my very best and made it hurt lol. I’m going to give  today a grade of an A. If someone told me at the beginning of the year that I would run 232 this year I would have been like hell yeah. Really happy to PR and happy that I gave myself a shot at a true career day and made it further than I ever have at that pace. Glad that even when things started slipping, mentally I was able to stay on it and truly feel like I was locked in all day today. I will say that today gave me more belief that one of these days I’ll finally run sub 230. Going to try to enjoy this one. Big congrats to everyone that went out and crushed it today. Thankful for my running community (really lucky to be a part of a club like GRC) and also always fun to run into familiar faces at these races. Overall, a really fun weekend and good to just spend time with my brothers. Today was a lot of fun and definitely drove home Sean’s favorite mantra of marathons are hard!

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Warm up lol

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A winter wonderland

Truly enjoyed “the running ground”

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