The marathon is over – hooray!!
While I had severe knee problems and came in much slower than anticipated, I finished the marathon. I didn’t really expect to have anywhere near the problems that I did, and would have been really disappointed in my time, but I now realize just how big of an accomplishment this was. Minus the pain, the race was actually a lot, and I learned so much from it.
To limit myself from posting a ridiculously long post, I’ll break up all the marathon experiences into several posts, but suffice it to say that this race proved a lot to me – about myself, about other people, and about the power of encouragement and support.