Med-City Marathon Additional Race Information

Gun time: 5:36:18
Chip time: 5:35:48

Mile 1 -- 10:09.87 (add 6 seconds; didn't get watch started in time)
Mile 2 -- 10:59.22
Mile 3 -- 11:24.55
Mile 4 -- 10:46.51
Mile 5 -- 11:12.98
Mile 6 -- 10:36.08
Mile 7 -- 11:21.97
Mile 8 -- 10:52.50
Mile 9 -- 11:10.87
Mile 10 -- 10:55.91
Mile 11 -- 11:30.69 (had a little bit of an incline)
Mile 12 -- 11:24.78
Mile 13 -- 11:58.48 (walked a bit to get a Larabar in me)
Mile 14 -- 11:35.46 (8:55.55 - saw the mile 15 marker reversed and 2:39.91)
Mile 15 -- 11:31.15 (2:47:37)

Through here, I was still having a pretty good race. If I could have held this, it would have been like Oklahoma City.

Mile 16 -- 12:46.01 (at this point, I was gassed)
Mile 17 -- 13:22.84
Mile 18/19 -- 28:14.98
Mile 20 -- 15:31.61 (spent and every step hurt because of my hip)
Mile 21 -- 18:54.13 (this *had* to be long)
Mile 22 -- 16:45.34
Mile 23 -- 16:03.07
Mile 24 -- 16:40.72
Mile 25 -- 14:35.07 (started to stretch and shuffle)
Mile 26 -- 12:58.22 (more)
Last .2 -- 2:19.45

One guy that I spoke with at the start said that he had just finished a 150-mile race. I said, "McNaughton?" He acknowledged that I was correct. I explained to him that I was a member of the Ultra listserv until they went on a Dean Karnazes bashing spree last year.

He said that he was doing the Last Great Race this year, which is Old Dominion, Western States, Vermont Trail, Leadville Trail, Wasatch Front and Angeles Crest. I asked him what his name was and he said, "Allan Holtz". He's 58 years of age and he was 8th of 13 that finished 150 miles -- 15 ten-mile loops. (He finished in 4:33:40 today.)

I got passed late in the race by 50 States Marathon Club newsletter editor Lois Berkowitz. I thought it was her, but just verified it in the results. (She completed the course in 5:29:55.)

One guy that I passed in the first two miles (and hoped that he didn't come back and catch me) - after a little research (yes, I can find anything online) - was 2005 Badwater finisher Carl Hunt, 57, from Roxbury, Connecticut. When I saw him, he had a tattoo on the middle of the back of his left calf. It said, "Ironman finisher." The one on the right was, "Badwater finisher."

Pretty darn cool. (Today, he finished though in 5:58:45.)

I spoke with 36-year-old Brigitte Syhakhoun, 36, of Rochester, between miles 22 and 24. She was doing a little walking. It was her first marathon ever. She wanted to beat Katie Holmes' time at the ING New York City Marathon (5:29-and change). I told her that if she did, she was going to have to start clicking off 12-minute miles at the mile 24 marker. (She finished in 5:34:16.)

Hometown Rochester resident Pete Gilman won the half marathon in 1:10:21. (He was a U.S. Olympic Men's Marathon Trials qualifier.)