November 29, 2008 (a little over a month ago...)
Marathon #4 for me.
TIME: 4 hrs 14 min something seconds
Ran a marathon on the rail trail in northern Maryland. Essentially a very flat marathon along a comfortable trail that used to host a rail line. Further north, near my house in Pennsylvania, the rail is still intact and the trail runs along side it. Down in Maryland, at least where this marathon was run, the rail was gone.
I ran in trail shoes that I've used before on my technical trails. This marathon was so flat I really should have stuck with my regular road shoes. By mile 5 I had hot spots on my toes and by 7 I had stopped and taped the outside edges of both small toes. Unfortunately the tape then rubbed against the 4th toe on the right foot and I had to baby a very deep, painful blister over the next week. That was the first marathon that really gave me blister trouble.
The hardest part of the marathon was the last 1- 1 1/2 miles. We exited the rail trail and headed up paved, steeeeeep roads back to the sch
ool where we started. It was a mean trick to play - 25 comfortable miles then steep uphills. But I survived and even stopped to kiss my wife a few hundred feet from the finish.
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