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New Jersey Marathon finished! – State #9
By Kevin | May 7, 2009
On Sunday, I finished the NJ Marathon in Long Branch, NJ. I’ll post a full race report soon with pictures, but just wanted to put up this quick update. It was more of a long, slow, training run than a race. I stayed very conservative and comfortable until some cramping at mile 24. Official finish time = 5:11:00 (46 minutes slower than my PR). Weather was cool and rainy the whole time, with steady showers beginning in earnest around mile 19. By the time I finished, I was very cold and soggy, but happy to have my brothers and my wife there at the finish. They were good cheerleaders on the course too!
Full race report coming soon!
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May 7th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Congratulations Kev! It’s nice to see another spot of red on the map! I was very impressed at how well you did considering the little training you did. I’m thinking I need to get myself running again. The Rome marathon is still talking to me…
May 7th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
One other thing. I was thinking you should/could set up a place on your site (maybe using a guestbook format) where visitors could recommend the best marathon in their state or add their own race reports. That might add another dimension and source of traffic to your site if it becomes a forum for the best marathons in each state… just an idea.