Green vomit and diahrrea is how it ended, 24 hours after I started the race (10 am on Tuesday) and was getting on a flight back to San Diego....
Basically, felt great coming into the race. ate mostly pasta and pure fit bars, a couple muffins. The only "fresh meat/mayonaise" I ate was from a Subway store near Boston Common. I won't go on with this now tired story.
as for the race - it was perfect weather, everything else went well. I felt ok on race morning. Hung out with Brook Sheely and Jim Goss and Mark Gorence. We rode over together on the bus and it was truly fun. Mostly Mark's jokes on the bus - some off color ones of course drew some comments - but that's to be expected.
We found a good place to hang around that i'll try again - near the front buses rather than in the back where people ususally congretate. It was the warm side of the high school and we had our own batch of porta-potties until about 9:00 am. Rich found us about 8:30 and we were all together.
We got separated when everybody but me got up to use the potty area, and I was guarding the stuff. After about 20 min I had to go myself. I never saw our group again until I was back in San Diego the week after the race...
Race
I did not feel great, but did not know why until 8 hours later. I was coming down with the first signs of food poisoning...but the same as fatigue. Muscle soreness, malaise, weakness, ringing in my ears, general malaise. I never felt comfortable. Came thorough the first few miles ok, but was not exactly cruising along. I felt very strange by the 1/2 point at 1:35. then it got really bad and I cannot recall too much more.
It was all I could do to finish. I vomited again and again starting mid race, then almost on the guy in front of me in the finish chute. Then the real collapse in the finish area. I got my bag and had to sit down. I could not get back up. When I did I up, I projectile-vomited all the gatorade left in my stomach. A security guard came up and asked me if I was OK. "um, no" was my reply. I made it up to the four season one open building at a time, resting until I had the energy to walk another 50'. It was freezing (to me). M hands were numb. I met up with David (of Caron) at the four season and sipped a soda with his dad for an hour or two - while the bombs went off and the everybody was glued to the TVs.
all I'm going to write for now.
| TIME | CHANGE | AVG PACE | AVERAGE HR | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1
*Fastest
| 6:56 | -- | 6'56"/mi | 148bpm |
2
| 14:09 | + 0:17 (-5%) | 7'13"/mi | 146bpm |
3
| 21:07 | - 0:15 (3%) | 6'58"/mi | 152bpm |
4
| 28:09 | + 0:04 (-1%) | 7'02"/mi | 155bpm |
5
| 35:29 | + 0:18 (-5%) | 7'20"/mi | 149bpm |
6
| 43:03 | + 0:14 (-4%) | 7'34"/mi | 154bpm |
7
| 50:14 | - 0:23 (5%) | 7'11"/mi | 156bpm |
8
| 57:39 | + 0:14 (-4%) | 7'25"/mi | 153bpm |
9
| 1:04:50 | - 0:14 (3%) | 7'11"/mi | 157bpm |
10
| 1:12:20 | + 0:19 (-5%) | 7'30"/mi | 155bpm |
11
| 1:19:48 | - 0:02 (0%) | 7'28"/mi | 157bpm |
12
| 1:27:06 | - 0:10 (2%) | 7'18"/mi | 153bpm |
13
| 1:34:39 | + 0:15 (-4%) | 7'33"/mi | N/A |
14
| 1:42:19 | + 0:07 (-2%) | 7'40"/mi | N/A |
15
| 1:50:06 | + 0:07 (-2%) | 7'47"/mi | 157bpm |
16
| 1:57:33 | - 0:20 (4%) | 7'27"/mi | 149bpm |
17
| 2:05:42 | + 0:42 (-10%) | 8'09"/mi | 155bpm |
18
| 2:14:14 | + 0:23 (-5%) | 8'32"/mi | 155bpm |
19
| 2:22:41 | - 0:05 (0%) | 8'27"/mi | 151bpm |
20
| 2:31:51 | + 0:43 (-9%) | 9'10"/mi | 150bpm |
21
| 2:41:29 | + 0:28 (-6%) | 9'38"/mi | 149bpm |
22
| 2:50:13 | - 0:54 (9%) | 8'44"/mi | N/A |
23
| 2:59:17 | + 0:20 (-4%) | 9'04"/mi | 149bpm |
24
| 3:08:51 | + 0:30 (-6%) | 9'34"/mi | 145bpm |
25
| 3:19:04 | + 0:39 (-7%) | 10'13"/mi | 144bpm |
26
| 3:29:12 | - 0:05 (0%) | 10'08"/mi | N/A |
