DATE: Sunday, November 26, 2006
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
My original plans was to do the Seattle double, but after a hard training run in
October, I decided to pass on it. My friend Tim did the double and qualified for the Maniacs. In 2005 I stayed at a hotel near the Seattle Center, but this time we stayed at a very nice hostel near Pike’s Place in Seattle. My mom and sister Julie also came along the way. They both did the half marathon again. Tim came up on Friday night to do the Ghost of Seattle Marathon on Saturday, I met up with him at the hostel on Saturday afternoon. I didn’t have a good running month in November, so I didn’t have any real goals set for this race.
For the record I have done the Seattle Marathon every year since 2005, and this was the only year in which the weather was bad. The days leading up to the race the weather was cold in the 30’s, but I didn’t expect what happened that morning. On race morning it was cold around 30-34 degrees. I heard there was a good chance of rain so I brought my running hat in order to keep the rain out of my face. At the start it was cold and dry, but that didn’t last long. After a few miles in started raining and never really let up. It remained in the mid 30’s, so I never saw snow, but I think I saw some ice, and wished (at times) that it was snow. I ran into a fellow teammate from my Hood to Coast team, who was running her first marathon. She didn’t seem to happy, and I don’t blame her the weather was horrible. In the latter parts of the race I had pretty bad chaffing and struggled to finish. I ended up running a 4:00 race. I’m glad the post race area was in a covered and heated area. I waited for my friend Tim who finished in about 4:30, and we walked the mile or so to the hostel. I showered and we drove back to Portland. When leaving Seattle it started snowing, but south of Centralia the weather went from raining to clear. To this day it remains the worst weather I have ever run a marathon in.
LOCATION: Seattle, Washington
My original plans was to do the Seattle double, but after a hard training run in
October, I decided to pass on it. My friend Tim did the double and qualified for the Maniacs. In 2005 I stayed at a hotel near the Seattle Center, but this time we stayed at a very nice hostel near Pike’s Place in Seattle. My mom and sister Julie also came along the way. They both did the half marathon again. Tim came up on Friday night to do the Ghost of Seattle Marathon on Saturday, I met up with him at the hostel on Saturday afternoon. I didn’t have a good running month in November, so I didn’t have any real goals set for this race.For the record I have done the Seattle Marathon every year since 2005, and this was the only year in which the weather was bad. The days leading up to the race the weather was cold in the 30’s, but I didn’t expect what happened that morning. On race morning it was cold around 30-34 degrees. I heard there was a good chance of rain so I brought my running hat in order to keep the rain out of my face. At the start it was cold and dry, but that didn’t last long. After a few miles in started raining and never really let up. It remained in the mid 30’s, so I never saw snow, but I think I saw some ice, and wished (at times) that it was snow. I ran into a fellow teammate from my Hood to Coast team, who was running her first marathon. She didn’t seem to happy, and I don’t blame her the weather was horrible. In the latter parts of the race I had pretty bad chaffing and struggled to finish. I ended up running a 4:00 race. I’m glad the post race area was in a covered and heated area. I waited for my friend Tim who finished in about 4:30, and we walked the mile or so to the hostel. I showered and we drove back to Portland. When leaving Seattle it started snowing, but south of Centralia the weather went from raining to clear. To this day it remains the worst weather I have ever run a marathon in.
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