It was an adventure and quite different to any other that I have run. Started off very slow and my brother moved well in front - so much for me pacing him!. By 4k thought I would DNF at any step with the pain and limping. For some reason it eased and I ran relatively freely up to 27k - caught my brother at about 13k and we stayed together until 27k - the pain came back and I slowed and he moved off quickly into the distance.
I went through a very deep black hole between 27 - 32 where I thought I would need to walk the rest of the marathon to finish. But again things came good and I got back onto 5 miniute k pace - caught my brother again at 38k and he was struggling. Stayed with him for about a k and then he urged me to finish my race and he would finish his. He finished in 3:40.
I am amazed that on a copuple of time sin the race the pain was high and I was down to a hobble and then soon after it has reduced enough that I could run relatively freel.
Also enjoyed at about the 19k mark a walk for about 5 mintes with Mountain Man.
At least I finished without what appears to be very little further damage to the calf injury.
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Ray, sorry to read that you've got the same injury or is it another one? Seems like you went through quite a bit of pain during that marathon; I'm wondering now how you'll be for the GC? Hopefully recovered & rested sufficiently; take it easy in the meantime.
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