(dave e)

quickly

finished the marine corps marathon in three hours, fifty minutes, and forty-five seconds.

1464th out of 22,000 registered runners. who knows how many ran? how many finished?

if 22,000 started, i finished in the sixth percentile. someone told me there were 18,000, which puts me in the eighth.

i'm perfectly thrilled with my time. and i had a wonderful time in my first marathon. better weather would have been nice. sunny and mid-seventies? no, thanks.

more later. many many many thanks for the support from our good friends, whose patience with us for beginning most sentences with, "on our long run this sunday..." has been remarkable.

[update]

1,464th of 16,385 finishers - 8.9%
1,187th of 9, 689 male finishers - 12%
212th of 1,577 30-34 year-old male runners - 13.4%

i've only seen anecdotal reports on temperatures, but i do know that crossing the 14th street bridge at mile twenty-one was pretty warm and that by the end i had seen many people laid out flat under the swarm of medics. one runner in my training group apparently got an IV drip at mile twenty-one. i've heard anything from 70 degrees to near eighty. i'd put good money on upper-seventies. after months of training runs on cold mornings and a nearly record-breaking cool summer, yesterday's temps were awful. apparently the race winner's time was the third-worst victory on record.

thanks for the barrage of nice comments already. so thougtful...

note: natalie says she'll write her marathon story soon.

additional note: go, kerry!

Posted by dave at October 31, 2004 9:39 PM | TrackBack