Kiawah Island Marathon Recap
Oh I love a race recap and I hope you like them as much as me. For some reason I always feel like we can glean something or learn something from reading other runners race recaps....Emma Bates race recaps might be the most well known! While I certainly don't run like Emma Bates, in fact well over an hour slower :)... this is my race recap for my 7th marathon where I set a 7 min Personal best AND finished 3rd in my age group!! What?? I think I surprised myself but WHAT.A.DAY!! So I made the travel from CT to SC with my parents (yes they came to root me on...such good parents right??) 2 days prior to the marathon. Kiawah Island was about 1 hour from a family members house that we stayed in Thursday night. Got up Friday morning hoping I could pull off a 2 mile shake out run without too much pain in the left leg that had been looming over me for most of the taper. Welp...that didn't go well. I had to walk, I had pain, I was discouraged. I couldn't believe how I would run a ful...