Portland Marathon!

Well the marathon is this Sunday and this will be my 3rd time running it. I have a goal of running it this year in less than 4 hours. My first Portland marathon was ran in 5:05. Good for my first time and looking back I was very lucky just to be able to finish it! Well last year after a full season of training for the event I came in at 4:27. A PR for me and an incredible reduction in time from the year before. I am hoping this year will be faster yet. With all of the training and cross training that I have been doing it appears that I should be able to go a sub 4. I have decided that if I achieve this goal I will stop doing stand alone marathons. I will still run marathons but only in Ironman competitions. I know that at one time recently I wanted to qualify for the Boston Marathon and to run it but my goals have changed to concentrating on triathlons exclusively.

So here I go onto my last event of this season. I know that it will be a great day and I will have the wonderful support on the course that I always do! This year is going to be extra special for me also because I will have Angela cheering me on and she will get to see me finish! In the past this wasn't possible because she was walking the marathon and this year she is taking it off. A full recap of the race will follow.