Marathon Miracle

All right all you nay sayers, I did it!! I just successfully ran the Salt Lake City half marathon with absolutely no training. To all the doubters, (you know who you are) I was able to make it past the 5 mile medical tent, which seemed to be the most commonly predicted spot for me to collapse. In all actuality I guess that “successful” is a relative term. I took my first walk break at around 3 miles, it wasn’t very long but it happened. The race in general was pretty tough but the last mile was insane; we ran from the University of Utah and looped back into downtown finally finishing as we ran through the gateway mall. In the crazy last mile which had the most spectators both of my legs cramped up worse than they ever have before, but I had to finish. It seemed like every time I straightened my legs they would lock and the unlocking was so painful that I started to do that weird almost fall over with no control of your legs thing, (by the way at the same time the Kenyans who were running the FULL marathon were already passing me.). Anyways, I started walking and it was still killing so the only way to keep my legs from locking was to march… high knees, straight back; right down the middle of 700 west, cops at every intersection, vehicles stuck behind them, cheering fans and hundreds of other runners passing me like a retarded kid who got separated from his marching band. In the end it was still successful because I did finish it just wasn’t very graceful. Next year I’ll train harder (anything is harder than nothing.) who’s in for next year?