Thanks to all those fellow runners who posted comments about this past weekends race here on my blog, we all struggled through it together but we made it. Hopefully everybody got notified about the results being posted.

My last thoughts from this race:

1. Did you know I lost 8lbs of fluid on Sunday? I weighed myself when I got home on Sunday and even after all the fluids and food I took in, I was still that far under weight.

2. There were only 171 marathon finishers, I came in 85th, so I was just under the 50% mark.

3. The race director indicated in his email that this race will focus on the half marathon next year and probably be run in October instead .. thats unfortunate that they are scrapping the marathon, but at least I was part of the ONLY run of this marathon.

4. FREE pictures from the race are posted here. If you weren’t at the race, take a look at the marathon finishers towards the last pages … you can see it was a rough day for all. Isn’t that just an awful picture of me running???

5. The race director also noted that the Schnitzel Half marathon scheduled for August is cancelled, due to the potential for steaming hot temperatures. Again, thats unfortunate.

So thats about it, its time to start thinking about the next race. I’ve decided to use the Pfizinger 70/12 plan to train over the summer for the Rochester marathon in September. I need to change my training around because its just boring now and not doing me any good. By mixing it up a bit, it should help me get focused again and really push me to the limit…

Well, i’m still enjoying the recovery time, on to resting …