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7.5 miles on the tempo loop. Wanted to do 4 miles slower than MP and 3 miles at MP. The 1st and 4th mile splits are pretty worthless because I had to go around some construction. splits: 5:48, 5:37, 5:46, 5:52, 5:28, 5:37, 5:33 Didn't feel great on this workout.

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5x1000 with 1 min rest splits: 3:20, 3:22, 3:22, 3:20, 3:32 felt very relaxed. Did the last one very relaxed, didn't look at watch, like ending my last workout before a big race very relaxed. Starting a 2 day depletion today. I did 3 days last year, but felt like it was too much, so doing 2 days this time.

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in chicago now, very excited to do this thing. Hotel room is pretty sweet, but they're charging me $13/day to use the internet, the final insult.

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ran by a group of like 30 Brazilians decked out in yellow. Got my bib # and shirt today, now I'll spend the rest of the day hiding/cowering in my hotel room.

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was awake at 3 AM, but stayed in bed until 3:45 trying to get a little more sleep. Got out of bed, ate a bagel and cream cheese. Chilled out and hydrated until 2 hours before race time then walked over to the top 100 tent. On my way over the lights on the path I was walking along went out, and it was horribly dark and i was walking alone and was a little fearful of someone jumping out. Made it to the top 100 tent in time, where there was only 1 other guy. Waited around in the tent and stayed hydrated. Was going to the bathroom like crazy. Elliott Frieder and Tim Mulligan showed up and hung out with them for a while. Around an hour to go took a caffeine pill, and went out for a slow 8 minute jog. Got back, stretched out, continued to constantly go to the bathroom, took some electrolyte strips, continued to take some water. We all went over to the start with about 20 minutes to go. I managed to get in a couple short strides, and took a piss with little to no coverage near the start. Got to the line, and chilled out for about 15 minutes while the anthem, wheelchairs, and elites went off. Then we went off. Race: Off the line, just wanted to go out feeling relaxed. Let a bunch of guys go and had a 5:37 split for the first mile. Was hot from the beginning. I was very wary about going out to fast from the start and was doubling up on waters from the first water station. Starting dumping water on myself around 2 or 3 water station into the race. Pretty much held that pace and stayed with a pretty big pack for about 8 miles or so. Then the pack completely disintegrated and the leader picked it up a bit. There was a second pack in striking distance from us and the guy I was following was picking it up to get to the pack. We did a couple high 5:20/low 5:30 splits to meet up with the pack. By the time we got to them however, that pack was starting to disintegrate as well. Tim Mulligan had a decent gap on the rapidly disintegrating pack. I ran with a couple guys for about a mile, then went off on my own to try to make my way to Tim. Took a couple miles to get to Tim and hung on him for a mile or so before a couple more guys joined us. Felt very relaxed at this point which was around 14 miles in. Kept hitting splits in the 5:30 mid region and feeling good. A guy came from behind our group and started to pull away a bit. I felt good so went with him. The pace with the new guy actually wasn't really any faster than what I had been running. Around 17 it started to get a little harder, but still felt pretty relaxed. Just focused on sticking on the guy in front of me. We were passing guys fairly consistently as well. I started mentally telling myself to just stick on the guy for one more mile to 18, then again to 19, then again to 20, after 20 he started to pull away a bit. I was also telling myself that the 20 mile marker was only the first half of the race. I was still hitting in the mid-high 5:30ish range. At 20 I was still feeling good and was pumped to run the last 6. I was thinking that I was going to destroy this last 6, and by destroy I mean run 5:35-5:40 pace. Up to 23 I was still hitting pretty good splits and feeling pretty good, but at 23 it was starting to hurt a decent amount. The skin under my toes was rubbed pretty raw because my socks were soaking wet and my feet were hurting pretty good. Was still mentally feeling very good about the race and was just trying to keep it under 6 minutes for the last 3 miles. the 23rd mile was 5:53. I passed Kate O'Neil around the 22nd or 23rd mile as well, the 24th mile I again was trying to keep it under 6 minutes. Was feeling the heat a good amount, but was still feeling mentally very good. 24th mile was a 6:02, and Kate O'Neil had passed me back. I wanted to run the last mile pretty well. I started to focus just on street lights as my focus point and try to keep a good pace until the next street light. I also started talking out loud to myself, which I never do normally. The only time I've ever talked to myself in my life is last year's Chicago Marathon. I was saying things like "relax", "come on", etc. Kate O'Neil had a decent lead on me around 25, but was in striking distance. I started to try to reel her back in the last mile. I started to really turn it on with about 800 to go, passed Kate with about .2 to go, then as I put my final kick on my right hamstring started to spasm, I backed off a bit, the sped back up, and it started to spasm again, then repeated that about 2 more times into the finish. It felt amazing to cross the finish line. At every 5k marker I thought about runnerunner and the message boards and helped me out greatly knowing that you guys were reading the boards and following the race. Thanks to everyone on the boards for your support, it helped a lot during the race. Big thanks for bails for coming out and cheering. I feel like I've got a good feel for the marathon at this point. This is definitely one of the best races I've ever run. Bring on Boston.

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was barely able to make it all the way through this run

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ran to the weight room, did weights with colin and sherm, ran back

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feels good to run again

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ran with cone/sherm/colin then went to the weight room to build some hurtin' bombs

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ran with cone followed by building hurtin' bombs with cone and colin

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