Napa Valley Marathon

At the Napa Valley Marathon, I managed to beat my own PR on only 3 hours of sleep, but I missed my goal of beating George W. Bush's.

Below are excerpts from an email sent after the event. Click here for more pictures.

It was a good run on a beautiful day, though I failed once again to beat G.W. Bush’s P.R. of 3:44:52. :/ Just over 5 minutes off though… getting closer…

In summary:
First half: 1:42:30. All I had to do was run the second half in 2:01:xx and I would have beat it! :) …but:
Second half: 2:07:30.

So my total time was 3:50:00. I sprinted in to try to come in under 3:50, but as you can see, I didn’t succeed in that either!

Overall though I am happy with how I did. Still a P.R. by about 10 minutes, and I managed to run the entire way (never mind that I was only running about an 11-minute/mile pace for the last 2 miles and couldn’t walk like a human being until Wednesday). And realistically I can’t complain when my two longest runs since Ironman Coeur d’Alene last just was the Home Depot Half (13.1 miles) and the Jed Smith Ultra (31 miles)… It also probably didn’t help that I was at a party in S.F. until 1:00am the morning before (from there I drove to Napa, getting there at 2:00am, and slept in my car for 3 hours), but no regrets!