Today was the Wildwood Trail Marathon. I was excited but apprehensive. I thought we would come in at about 6 hours if all went well. If we got really tired it could be closer to 7 hours. We crushed it with a finish time of 5:21:18. This was an average pace of 12:16 which is only a minute off the Skippo 20K pace of 12:15. I am still not sure how we did it.
I came in first in my age group. There was a woman that we were leap frogging most of the race. I thought she was the other woman in my age group. We were just ahead of her but she took off out of aid station #4 a minute ahead of us. I wasn't going to even try to catch up. I ended up coming in first because she started in wave 2 and my total time was less.
Kathy came in 4th. The three women ahead of her were 50, 51, and 52. If they would have had five year age groups she would have been first in 55-59. She is first in my mind all the time.
I felt good the whole race. I was very tired at the end. It was a beautiful day.
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