Go! St. Louis Marathon by the numbers

Mile 5

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Go! St. Louis Marathon -- April 19, 2009 -- 7am -- 59*F and rain (except from mile 10 to mile 14)

Official numbers:
1798 Finishers - 1170 M / 628 F
Chip time: 4:35:18
Gun time: 4:43:58
Half time: 2:14:23
23 mile: 4:04:07
Overall: 1126
Sex place: 315
Age group: 85
Min time: 2:12:58
Avg time: 4:25:05
Max time: 7:55:31
Out of the 4 Barron's that signed up, only 2 finished.

I pretty much came in dead middle of the sex group and only 10 minutes behind the mean time!

Garmin is water logged, so I'm scared to charge it tonight and get the stats off. I might have lost it all. Camera got fogged up halfway through. Pictures I'm sure turned out all blurry. I thought it was just the screen at first then I realised it was inside the lense. The iPod buttons stopped working, I couldn't skip any songs. I thought the cell phone came out fine but after calling someone, the ear piece was muffled. Why didn't anyone tell me that electronics don't fair well in 22 miles of rain! LOL I have a chafing burn on the underside of my left arm from my sleeveless shirt and then the cell phone created a nice burn outline between my breasts.

Thanks to everyone who was following me over on Twitter. Twitterfone worked out pretty well except for the heavy breathing. After a while I couldn't do it anymore and just sent in my texts instead.

Full race recap to come later on in the week. But I did it. I ran in the 4:30's. It's what I wanted to do, I might be done. But as one guy pointed out, this was under harsh conditions and I added in hills. Who knows what I could do with a flat marathon! We'll see. Gotta determine what how the knees held up after this.

Mile 12 (just marathoners at this point)
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