My polar said 1 hour 47 minutes but the clock time indicated 1 hour 50 minutes. Either way, I paced an 8:28 mile and I was extremely happy with that under the weather conditions- It was 53* , windy, and pouring rain for most of the race!

Here is the link to the results, http://www.cityofoaksmarathon.com/results/
My shoes were soaked at about mile 4! Ick! I reached the halfway mark at 43 minutes, which means I was pacing about 7 minutes a mile for the first 6.5 miles….Just before that, I had half of a Gu pack ( chocolate flavor) and finished the other half at mile 9. My mom strategically placed herself at mile 11 and boy, did I need her cheering face to keep me going!

My stuff all laid out for the morning…

I had a small ripe banana at 5:30 am and downed 1 packet of Vega Sport Optimzer at 6:30 ( half hour before the race start).

Immediately after the race, I just wanted to get dry and warm because the rain started pouring even harder. So we headed back to the house and I had this myoplex shake  and half an orange… with my finishers medal

After getting cleaned up and stretched out, we headed to brunch with my mom, brother, his girlfriend & her daughter at this fantastic Irish Pub , Tir na Nog. They have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day party every year, now I know I can add a wonderful brunch to that as well!

There was beef chili, cheesy grits, shrimp & grits, potato cakes, breakfast potatoes, scrambled eggs, bacon, eggs benedict, sausage gravy & biscuits, sausage, pasta with smoked sausage, bread pudding, a salad station, roast beef, omlet station, waffle station, muffins and cakes!   It all was so delicious but I couldn’t manage to actual eat all the food I wanted! My body was still in “run” mode  I think.

Plate #1

A potato cake on top of bacon, sausage gravy, cheesy grits, a BBQ pork taco, and an egg benedict. I didn’t finish … I wish I had that kind of stomach! I had the grits, the egg and ham, a bite of the potato cake, and the bacon..

Fruit & another egg+ham, some bread pudding

A slice of chocolate cake…

I will try to get some race pictures up as soon as they post them!