Well yesterday was the marathon. Though my finish time was nothing special (around 5:30, same as last year), I honestly felt better afterwards than last year. I suppose that's a good thing, but more importantly I no longer care to improve on that time by running another one. To do better would require more diligent training, which just isn't worth the effort when you have no compelling reason to do so. Thus I have decided that half marathons will be more than adequate for future distance events. Anything more is just silly to me. I'm glad I gave it a couple of tries though. I've said for years that people should be willing to try anything twice. Sometimes the first shot just doesn't get the point across.
Jillian (Kana's friend), Me and Kana pre-race
More photos, mostly post-race,
here.
Today I lounged around most of the morning and then took a bus to the USS Arizona Memorial site in Pearl Harbor (now part of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument). It was quite the humbling experience.
Congrats on the finish jimmy... and amen to doing things twice and stopping on the second one. It's worked out good for me.
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