Monday, October 12, 2009

Happy Canadian Thankgiving and Steamtown Marathon Quick Report

First of all Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadians blogger friends.  Hope you are relaxing and enjoying the holiday!  I am cooking a turkey dinner today for my mom and sister (she came home from Nashville to visit!).  Great for active recovery!

Despite a recent post about losing my mojo,  I surprised myself with a small PB yesterday at Steamtown.  I finally felt like I had some kick in my legs and ran my first ever NEGATIVE split marathon.
Time - 4:08:54 (a 26 second PB).  Given that this was a training run,  and I was doubting even a 4:30 finish,  I am very pleased with this result.

Full report to come. Major congratulations to all the marathon runners out there this weekend,  there were a ton of great results,  and I look forward to reading your reports.

Now you'll have to excuse me,  I have a turkey to stuff and get in the oven and an apple crisp to bake.  Have a great Monday!

24 comments:

  1. congrats on a great race - negative marathon splits is huge!! Happy Thanksgiving too!

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  2. WOWZERS great work lady! I am getting excited for Thanksgiving reading all my Canadian friends Blogs... YUMMY!!

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  3. Great job!! Can't wait to read the full report.

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  4. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Congrats on another marathon and a PR!

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  5. The PB's sometimes come when you least expect them. Nice job!

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  6. happy thanksgiving!!

    congrats on the race and a pb!!

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  7. Congrats on the surprise PR! :) Happy Thanksgiving!

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  8. Happy Thankgiving!!

    And Congrats on your PR!! I agree, surprise PR's are always awesome!

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  9. Gotta LOVE a surprise PR!!!

    Congratulations :D

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  10. Happy Thanksgiving and congrats on a great run!

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  11. Nice job, Happy Thanksgiving, I love saying that in October!

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  12. Way to go! Sounds like a great race!

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  13. Woohoo! Gotta love a negative!

    Happy Thanksgiving.

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  14. Congratulations, you have to be thrilled with that! So THAT is why you're doing Flying Monkey - family. It'll be great.

    Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.

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  15. Congratulations and great job! I had considered Steamtown for this year, maybe at some point. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving.

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  16. You are too humble! That's a terrific time and negative splits?!? Yay!!! Great job!

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  17. Congratulations Marci! I was SO happy when I saw your update on FB! Nice PR and huge congrats on the negative split. That is a big deal!!!

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  18. CONGRATS!!!!!!!! that is AWESOME-- negative splits are so rare!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  19. I LOVE suprise PRs like that. Can't wait to read the full report.

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  20. Wow! What a wonderful surprise. CONGRATS and Happy Thanksgiving!

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  21. Awesome job on the "training" run!!! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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  22. Woo hoo! Congrats on your PB! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

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  23. Congrats! That is pretty awesome indeed. Happy belated Thanksgiving.

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