The Robles': St. George Marathon

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This was my first marathon. Over all the years of running that I have done, I have never ran a marathon. I have ran many 5 and 10Ks. A few half marathons and one 32 mile trail run but never an actual marathon. I was supposed to run it with my buddy John Emmett but unfortunately he was left out of the lottery picking. So I got a new buddy, Tyler Okerlund to go and run it with. We drove down on Friday night and shared a hotel room with our two families.

This is Tyler and myself at 5 in the morning.

This is me at Veyo and mile marker 7. Ryanne drove out to cheer for me and refill me with gu. As I came through Veyo I was excited knowing that she would be there. But I forgot that I wanted to take off my gloves and arm warmers. So instead of being ready with them off and ready to give them to Ryanne and maybe say hi, get a kiss and keep running, I found myself running past her trying to rip off the warmers and gloves, throwing them off to the side of the road and continued running. Thanks babe for driving all the way out there.

After finishing all the pain came at once. I'm sorry Ryanne did not have a picture of me right after finishing. When I finally saw her and walked over to her she congratulated me and then my complaining started. I told her my legs hurt SO bad and that I did not want to sit down but that it hurt to walk and kept asking her what I should do. She looked at me and said, "Everyone is in just as much pain as you are." She was so right but I wanted some sympathy. I was not going to get it here. I could tell she was getting tired of all my whinning so I had her call some good friends of ours who are physical trainers for any helpful advise. It came down to me just having to suck it up. Finally the pain eased up but did not leave me. I made it over to the massage table and my face shows how good it felt to be off my legs.