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jrjo
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 Posted: 10/06/05 - 09:36 Post subject: Flashback race reflection :: 1987, w/pics
Last night I opened a box I hadn't cracked in over 18-years. I knew it had mildew on it from being in the basement and my expectation was a complete green fuzzy mass inside, so I'd continually stuffed it further and further out of my mind. But in a flurry of cleaning, there it was front and center. No turning back now, time to crack the lid. And although the outside was nasty, the contents were still as good as gold.
I had completely forgot there was even a finisher medal from my first marathon. I was 19 and had just wrapped up my first year of college. With an upcoming cross-country season in the fall, I was determined to pile the miles over the summer and what better way to pull the trigger on it than run a marathon in June.
Back then, there was no cookie-cutter schedules, nor was there the debate on how many and how far the 20+ milers should be. Heck, my longest training run was 2-hours, about 16-miles and I did that twice as I recall. Otherwise, everything was 12 and less.
Marathon day was perfect temps as I remember and my first half of the race was in the low 7's per mile and my thought at the time was I had a marathon in the low 3's in the bag. Well, la-dee-da, was does a 19-yr old know? By 16, my legs cemented up and by 20, the wall sent me to sit on the curb and wonder. The final 10k was gallow-walking before gallowing was cool. You can see by my finish pic, I hunched over in pain once I was a foot across the line.
The big  I found among the marathon memorabilia was this form in amongst the race directions and such. Man alive, I should have jumped on that one and wrote the check right then and there...yeah, like I'd have had a hundred bucks back then 
..thanks for taking a trip down memory lane.. maybe I'll scan some other things outta that box one of these days. 
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robp
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 09:43 Post subject:
Now that is some cool stuff!
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rolling rock
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 09:57 Post subject:
| robp wrote: | | Now that is some cool stuff! |
very cool. we need a better close-up of that 19 yo! great story. we all KNEW IT ALL at 19 
i have a love/hate relationship with those basement boxes.
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jrjo
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 10:11 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: | | we need a better close-up of that 19 yo! |
..you will notice, my attempt to replicate greatness at the time with a duplicate running shorts/singlet as my hero Dick Beardsley. 
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Cappy
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 11:39 Post subject:
Very cool indeed
and you had hair then too 
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 10/06/05 - 12:39 Post subject:
this is funny because I was in a closet today that had old newspaper clippings, #'s etc............so I start browsing.......interesting . I found a picture of 'that race' (the one that I wasn't prepared for.....the one I forgot about when I said I only ran 5k and 10k for years and didn't run long until I was totally prepared). My hubby just brought up that race and asked what I ran it in saying "I bet you run marathons faster than that 20-miler you did". Unfornuately the picture doesn't show the finish time.....but I don't think it was sub-3 and talk about weird hairdos!!!!!! And my legs are HUGE
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