California International Marathon- A new kind of pain
December 8th 2019 I completed my first marathon. However, the race started 14 weeks when I was on my way back from Santa Cruz 70.3. I’ve been a distance runner for years, and in the past 3 years I’ve been competing at the professional level. I’ve done races all across the board between swimming, biking, and running at plenty of distances. Yet there were two distances that I deemed as too far, or not really my type because of the speed I still have in my legs. Something after Santa Cruz changed in regard to one of them. For years I had said I would do a marathon once I was under 1:10 in the half marathon, but after hitting time and time again I wasn’t pulling the trigger on actually doing one. I knew they would put me out of commission for a while due to the shear impact that occurs during, but ultimately I think I was scared it would be much harder than anticipated. That changed when I completed my first full 70.3 and had a decent run to finish up the day. I realized that I knew wh...