marathons...i wish there was some honest person out there to write an article about marathons that would let the folks running them know what they were truly getting into. allow me to give you the run down really fast.
8am - start time. you're on the line with more folks that are out of your league than you can even imagine. most of them will be done, home, and asleep before you even cross the line. your sweet new shiny shoes, and running shorts are clear signs that you are the rookie who in about 2 hrs will be the guy hugging a light pole faking like you are stretching out.
8:30am - at this point you realize that this was probably a really bad idea. your thighs and calves are burning a lot more than usual. you realize that you started out way too fast. the excitement was high, lots of people were passing you, and you know that you still have @ LEAST 3+ hrs left
9am - the ipod is blaring the new Coldplay which is not really the best running music. you have to use the bathroom, and you're freezing because you spilled water all over yourself at the last water stop.
10am - what happened to 9:30am? who knows. you are pretty sure it got lost when you jumped the median ran past the porta potties IN USE, and posted up on a row of trees. your restless bladder is not the only one in the bunch. when you look around there are some 20+ guys gasping with relief.
11am - you realize that the winner of the race finished about 40 mins ago. you also realize that your knee hurts, and neither GU nor poweraide are appealing. the music has gotten better on the ipod, and the woman who was running beside you convinced you are that you are not running all the slowly. also, you now feel like a champ considering all the people who passed you were part of the half marathon crowd.
12am - that knee thing got nasty. you just peed in a bush beside some business with little shame, and your face looks like you've been slapped around by a Turkish monk. you were hoping that you'd only have about 15 minutes left in this race, however; the truth is that since your left leg is nearly worthless, you are just shuffling your feet
1am - done(well a little before this...but when you walk 9 miles, your wooden legs don't care what the clock says --- you survived)
and, after all that, you decide that you'll get revenge on the marathon and do it again.
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