stick with me, and we ran side-by-side for the race. i did end up checking my watch more than usual, but we were able to keep up a pretty consistent pace. we’d talked about maybe going to every other water stop, but i ended up stopping at pretty much all of them anyway. i skipped the first one.
the 4:45 marathon pace is actually 10:52, but since i usually end up with a little more than the distance on my watch and i wanted to give myself somewhat of a cushion, i figured aiming for 10:45 would be good.
i had to get a photo with woody, since we ran most of 