Feeling good and ready to go at the start line
Send off with a haka
Starting my stopwatch for the start of the marathon
10km mark and on form
I started to crash at the 30km mark and dad did a few km's to help keep me going
I finish in 3hr 56mins 08sec and little down on what I expected but just stoked to finish
Still smiling at the finish even though I cant walk
A big crowd turns up for the prisegiving
The oldest people to do the marathon came on stage. The ladies were 80/84 and the men 83/84/87. Hope I can still do them at that age.
1 May 2011
Over the last 3 months I have been training hard counting down for the rotorua marathon. The weather conditions were perfect and I felt really good at the start of the race. I started out slow and building following the 3.5hr pacers all the way to the 21km mark, however then I hit the hills at the back of rotorua near rotoiti and started to crash. I kept it going with mum and karen keep feeding me bananas and lollies and dad jogging 6km with me. They kept following me to make sure I was still pacing along until the end : ) Those last 15km were TOUGH.
I ended up picking up the pace again for the last couple of km and finished 3hr 56mins 08secs. The winning man took out a time of 2hr 23mins 01sec.
I finished 76th in my age group 16-36 and was the 381st overall of 1390 full marathon competitors which im happy with being my first.
I joined all the other finishes who were limping and hobbling around like 95 year olds. Two days on im starting to walk again but I think it will be awhile until i want to go go another run.
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