State number 3 down.Completed: October 19, 2008
People warned me that this would be a tough one because of the altitude. I was worried but trucked on to the mile high city. I actually took the week before the marathon off from running. I was beginning to feel the wear of running everyday and was getting quite burnt out. I think that this totally worked to my advantage. Also with the help of the Nike + invention, which completely revolutionized my training, I was well prepared for this race.
It was so amazing. I completely recommend this race to anyone. It was beautiful, clean, and the course was almost flat with at most a couple of hills. The only complaint that i have is that, and this only happened once, runners were stopped by cops to let traffic go by with much dismay by runners trying to make time. I myself had a goal of 5 hours. I had signed up for the pace group and actually stayed almost 10 minutes ahead of them for most of the race. I was so pissed when they passed me at mile 24. But was very happy with my time of 5 hours and 3 minutes which is 22 minutes faster than my personal best for the marathon! How exciting right?
Seriously though, this marathon was perfect. The course, the recovery time, the freebees. I loved every aspect of this place. I even want to move denver now. Ugh it was everything. I cant stop talking about how fabulous the past four days have been. So I'll just leave you with the links to my pictures...
I actually had so much fun training for and running this marathon that I'm already researching my next couple marathons. I think that since I only did one this year, that I'm going to do 3 next year. Cincinnati on May 3, Seattle on June 27, and the USMC in DC in October.
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