The morning of the Grand Rapids Marathon , October 20 2013 weather was chilly but sunny and no rain . It rained hard the night before , with thunder and lightening. I am so glad it stopped raining . It made for a much more pleasant first marathon . A chilly 40 degree start, but seemed perfect for running . I started with the 3:44:00 pace group , and felt very confident .
Things were going great . I was on a great pace of 8:30 as projected . At approx. mile 4 we go over the bridges downtown . As you will see on my mile breakdown listed below on training peaks , I was on target thru 16 miles . I have Timex GPS Trainer watch that works very well .
One of the exciting events of a race is going the Packet . It's like a Halloween goody bag . It must be the unknown that is so fun . Anyway, we runners have this weird thing that we like to do. Lay out all the goodies and display them . So, ya gotta check this packet out:
Training Peaks has a great map and graph report . As you can see below, the actual Marathon course is on the left and my pace per mile is shown on the right.
The Finish Line was a great thing to see. Not sure how much farther I could have gone
Time to Celebrate!!!
