Five Points of Life Marathon

All that training over the winter is beginning to pay off. At 7:00 a.m. on the 24th the gun went off for the Second Annual Five Points of Life Marathon. The intention was to run a pace that would be considered a bit slow for a marathon, but a bit fast for an ultra. This would be about a 10-12 min/mi. pace with a target finishing time of 4:30-5:00 or so. [pictured here, pre-race with my game face on... and crooked sunglasses - what a dork].


Well it all sounded good as pre-race strategy goes. The first 13 miles or so, were very casual and very easy with a half-way time of 2:03. So I picked it up a bit, not feeling any pressure and finished 38th with a chip time of 3:48(and change). Not bad considering I wasn't trying to race at all. By comparison, this time was a bit over a minute faster than a Twin Cities Marathon time (last fall) when I raced pretty hard. The temperatures were comparable.


I jogged back to the car, and drove 7 hours to Miami where there is a conference on Email (not SPAM) marketing. In five weeks the legs get the real test... 100 miles of trail in Umstead Park (North Carolina).