Category Archives: Full Marathon

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  Toronto Marathon: Recap with A LOT of photos

  Posted on May 13, 2013 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon

  I’m finally sitting down to write the recap for the Toronto Marathon (5/5/13). At some point last year, Krysten of DawinianFail.com started mentioning the Goodlife Fitness Toronto Marathon and something about donuts. I figured this would be a great way to see Canada, run a little bit and to celebrate with friends… and it was. [...]

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  Toronto Marathon Preview

  Posted on May 1, 2013 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon

  I’ll be racing in Toronto this weekend. Yep, my first international race since my very first marathon in Florence in 2006. When Krysten of DawinianFail mentioned running it and yelled at me through Twitter to come North and enticed me with TimBits (want to see what TimBits are?), it was a wrap. We’re doing it [...]

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  The @OaklandMarathon: I Finally Learned

  Posted on March 26, 2013 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon

  For the 4th year in a row, I ran the Oakland Running Festival. This would be my 3rd attempt at this marathon course, with my previous attempts all including me going out WAY too fast. First up, fun at the EXPO: Picking up the bib and shirt are always super easy with ORF. I walk [...]

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  Two Cities Recap: I Went For It.

  Posted on November 6, 2012 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon

  I went for it. I put it all out on the line… and crashed. If the saying is sub-4 or bust? Well, I busted. Don’t get me wrong. I am more than thrilled with my PR. As a matter of fact, it was a 15-minute PR and that is a HUGE chunk of time to [...]

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  Mt. Diablo Marathon Recap: The Good, The Bad, The Fall.

  Posted on September 18, 2012 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon

    Runners can be a crazy and spontaneous bunch. This is a good thing… most times. With the North Face 50 mile race at the end of December, it was time to see where I was in my training. A couple of weeks ago I decided to sign up for the Mt. Diablo trail marathon [...]

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  Oakland Marathon: Photos

  Posted on April 2, 2012 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon

  Here is a photo recap of the Oakland Running Festival 2012, enjoy. As you can see, the start line is a perfect place for the “two-finger-mouth-open point!” Let’s do this thing! Still looking happy… what am I doing with my arms? I have no idea. Holding an imaginary martini? Maybe. “We didn’t start the fire…” [...]

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  Oakland Marathon: I’ll Never Learn

  Posted on March 27, 2012 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon, Race Recap

  You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink, just like you can lead me to a marathon, but you can’t stop me from going out too fast. I guess I’ll never learn. It’s simple, you go out to fast and you’ll fade at the end. I know this. I knew [...]

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  200th Post: NYC Marathon Recap

  Posted on December 1, 2010 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon, Race Recap

  With so much excitement surrounding the ING NYC marathon, this may be one of the toughest recaps I have had to write due to the fact that there is SO MUCH to write about. I will try to cover as much as possible, while still keeping it a decent, readable length. Of course, things will [...]

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  RnR Seattle: A Pleasant Disappoinment

  Posted on July 2, 2010 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon, Race Recap

  I didn’t really have very many expectations going into the Seattle Rock n Roll Marathon other than to run with a really great friend and to finish. My training took a bit of a dip a couple months before, most likely due to burn-out and I was fine with using this as a training run [...]

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  Oakland Running Festival: Recap

  Posted on March 30, 2010 by PavementRunner in Full Marathon, Race Recap

  For the first time in 25 years, Oakland was host to a Marathon. The Oakland Running Festival was a weekend full of races organized by CSE. The course goes included running through downtown to Temescal, circling Lake Merrit, Jack London Square and sweeping views from Montclair and the industrial west side on Mandela Parkway. As a [...]

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