On April 16, 2011 I ran the Salt Lake City, Utah marathon. I was both excited, and a little worried, about this particular race. Although I knew I could “easily” finish 26.2 miles, I didn’t know in what time – and this wasn’t my “A” race, it was merely a “training run with AID stations.”

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Fortunately, the course is mostly downhill, and the the small uphills were nothing compared to some of my other training. My finish time would have been much better (4:26) except that I stopped to use the facilities about five times. Continue reading →