Disney Marathon, (Jan. 11th 2009)

#110 Disney Marathon. Temps 60 to 69 sunny. Finish time 3:31:38

Friday morning:
Heather and I met Jeff, a high school friend, for breakfast before packet pickup. We naturally, talked mostly about running. He was in town as a member of the Clif Bar Pace Team. He autographed my copy of his book "My First 100 Marathons". We swapped Drymax and Clif Bar samples.

Sunday morning:
There was little room to warm up at the start. I got in 15 minutes and felt good. I saw Heather stopped at mile 13. She dropped due to an injury. (She also didn't want me passing her:) My goal was to run every mile at 8:00 or under. I have not raced or trained more than 3 miles at a 8 min pace since Oct 2007 (except for the 1/2 marathon the week before). So I was pleased I somehow remembered how to hold pace. As the temps went up, my pace slowed. I took it easy. I missed the Boston Qualifier time by one minute 38 seconds.

We had plans to meet up again with Jeff after the race. He introduced us to other members of the Clif-Bar Team. Darris and Star, from the pace team, expressed an interest in crewing for me if I got selected to run Badwater this year. The team had a number of accomplished and extreme runners.

There were no blisters on this run; the Drymax socks worked again.