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What a day for the TC marathon. I dropped Kelly off at the start and watched her the rest of the way on bike. I joined Biz and Mo and Waima for the first half or so of the marathon, then followed Kelly more closely for the second half. She had an amazing race. I can’t believe anyone can run that fast. She went out a bit fast, doing the first 10k in 40 minutes in an effort to catch the 3:10 pace balloon. This balloon runs steady 7:10, but because Kelly started in the back of the 2nd corral, she had to fly to catch up to it. She caught it by mile 6!
She ran with the pace balloon until around mile 15 or so, where she said she felt pretty good but was worried a bit about her stomach. By mile 19 she had left the 3:10 balloon, she must have been feeling good, because she was a full minute ahead of it! She absolutely flew through the rest of the course. She ran 7:02′s from mile 19 to 23, which is all slightly uphill. Then she latched onto a woman runner that was making steady 6:50′s until she blasted past her and many other runners, closing down with a 6:13 last mile!
Her garmin data is really something else. What an incredible effort. And only her second marathon!
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