This blogger on a quest to run 50 marathons in 50 states, added another notch to her running shows after participating in the Under Armour Baltimore Marathon on Saturday. Though she found her results disappointing, we're just impressed that she finished it.
Here's an excerpt:
"Unsuccessful. No Boston qualifying time...not even a respectable time. I was running almost 60 miles a week by the end of my training, and I just died halfway through. I need to go through a few things and see where I went wrong...my time was 4:08:52. However, lets compare apples to apples. Baltimore goes in the same category as San Francisco - looking at an elevation chart of the SF run, Baltimore is actually worse. SF is flat, flat, flat then a few enormous hills, followed by flat, flat, flat. The hills are in the middle and though they are steep, they are not as bad as Baltimore. In Baltimore, the hills were long and never ending. Halfway through the race, there was a 7 mile hill. Seeing as I finished SF in 4:52, finishing Baltimore in 4:08 is actually an accomplishment. I think my next goal is to try to finish all marathons under 4 hours, even if it is in 3:59. Now, in San Antonio, it is flat and I think I will try for a BQ time again...hope it actually happens."
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