Philadelphia
The night before I woke up every hour, looked at the clock, said "I have N
hours before I need to get up" and went back to sleep.
I lost a lot of fluids because I couldn't turn the temperature in the room down
and spent the night sweating. When I got up I drank a lot of water and GuBrew,
but as it turns out, not enough.
The weather was good, about 46 at the start. It was sunny, which was quite a
problem when I got a migraine at mile 8. It took me about a mile to get my
imitrex out of my pocket and actually take it. At the half I was still close to
the 3:20 pacer and I considered taking the turn for the finish line, but
decided to keep going.
As the nausea from the migraine subsided, I started getting a stomach cramp. At
mile 17 I stopped at medical. After some back and forth the decided the cramp
was likely due to dehydration and they made me sit and drink in front of them
for 15 to 20 minutes before they cleared me to continue.
After that I went on my way at a much slower pace. At about mile 24 one of my
teammates, Tom, caught up to me (this was his 19th race at marathon or greater
distance). He paced me and got me through to the end.
I ended up finishing at 3:55:46, far off from my goal. But now I know I can
finish the distance so it's just a matter of doing it faster. I'd like to get
two more in before New York next November.
Right now, I feel much better than I thought I would. It was weird, when I woke
up this morning, I was walking around the hotel room for a half hour feeling
just fine. Then I put my shoes on and everything from my feet to my shoulders
started hurting. That's more-or-less subsided now, thankfully.
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