RACE REPORT - Chelsea Taylor

SHORT(ish) VERSION:

Gun Time: 5:58:18
Chip Time: 5:37:52
10K Split: 1:37:05
Half Split: 3:04:24
20M Split 4:39:11

Overall Place: 33,873 (though, looking through the results a lot of
people ahead of me had higher chip times – I guess they didn't start
as far back as I did).

The race was great – though very long (yes, I know that all marathons
are 42.2km) and tough. The spectators were amazing; there were so
many of them and they were all so enthusiastic.

The "Athlete Alert" did work for me (although it said that re-doing
would erase previous emails, it didn't – all the alerts went to my
address, which I had used as a practice a few weeks ago, to see if any
notice was sent to those registered). So, I ended up missing my
cousin on the course (around mile 23ish) because they were there too
early – I didn't expect it to take 21 minutes to cross the start. I
had no trouble, thankfully, in finding them at the family reunion area
(after walking, what seemed like forever from the finish line).

I started with the 5:30 pace bunny. Got ahead of them. Stopped for a
bathroom break and fell behind them. Caught up to them. Fell behind
them. Stopped for a bathroom break and totally lost them. Finished
on my own. I did a combination of 10 and 1s, 5 and 1s, 5 and 2s, and
a walk break of almost 5 minutes (not necessarily in that order).

I'll have a more detailed account of the race weekend (including
making maintenance people let me look in the trash compactor for my
passport) later.

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