i ran the portland marathon this morning. it went pretty well. i ran a personal best of 3:17:07. i know that i’m capable of running faster, but i’m ok with today’s race considering that i was treating it as a training run since i didn’t really do any kind of real buildup or marathon-specific training. my longest pre-marathon run was maybe 17 miles, which is not long. today, i was pretty comfortable until maybe mile 22, when the hurt set in. legs, mostly. some lungs. though my lungs hurt yesterday before the race so maybe i’m battling some kind of respiratory thing? dunno. i went out slow. didn’t get much faster. but the course was nice. i mean, it was fine. a non-event, really. now i’m tired.

i was kind of freaking out the week before the race. i don’t wear deodorant and whenever i’m anxious, i can smell myself. so in the days leading up to the marathon, i was somewhat smelly. after the marathon today, i smelled fine. is there an evolutionary reason for this? or does my nervousness cause my body to release some kind of toxin that i have to sweat out? maybe the latter.

either way. i’m done smelling bad now. and i ran a personal best. whee.

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