during the race. i was determined not to push it.
to my surprise, my left leg was fine! unfortunately, at mile five or so, i noticed my right it band tightening and causing an annoying pain in my right knee. (description here.) for the first half of the race, occasionally stopping to stretch it out helped and i was able to keep going fine. after mile 15 or 16, however, i was in plenty of pain. if this had been a training run, i would have had to stop. i had ten more miles of my marathon to go, though. there was no way i was stopping.
i slowed my running pace 