Hilton Head Marathon
Date: 2015-02-07
Location: Hilton Head, SC
Finish Time: 3:16:32
Official Results
Race Website
Local Brewery
Highlights:
- Finished 7th overall with my 5th fastest marathon time to date, really starting to think that I might be onto something with this strategy of starting off slowly and getting gradually faster throughout the race
- Spent 10 days in South Carolina playing outside, hanging at the beach, hitting the links and meeting farm animals instead of staying in NJ, dealing with sub-zero temperatures and shoveling snow
- Left the kids with Bill and Marge for a two-day trip to check out the sites and sounds of Savannah, GA
Low-lights:
- One of us (not naming names) may have overdone it on our one night out without kids
- What’s that thing called where your younger kid throws up in the car halfway to the airport and your older kid repeatedly yells, “It smells in here! When are we going to be at the plane?” and then when you finally do get to the airport you find out that your flight has been cancelled and you can’t fly home for two more days so you drive back to your parents’ condo but on the way there your younger kid throws up again? Oh yeah, Valentines Day.
- Went out a bit too conservatively, couldn’t quite make up the time needed to get in under 3:10
Thanks:
- To Bill and Marge for letting Shannon, myself and two loud, energetic children crash their winter vacation in South Carolina
- To Shannon for once again taking charge of all that goes into traveling on airplanes with two loud, energetic children
- To John and Peg for the door to door service to / from Newark Airport and a couple of unexpected days of Eli-sitting
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