CIM 2014 John:3:56:17 48/143 in 60-64 2,362/5,806 finishers 1,649/3,232 male finishers
Jodi:
3:55:54 83/364 in 45-49 2,351/5,806 finishers 709/2,573 female finishers
CIM was my 5th marathon
of 2014 (fewest in a year since 2000) and it was Jodi’s 3rd overall.
Jodi had improved almost a minute a mile in her second marathon on a very hilly
course in Knoxville in March (4:44 to 4:19). Now she had trained hard and was
ready to shoot for sub 4 and even a BQ of sub 3:55 at CIM. The weather was the
warmest I’d ever seen for CIM; it was low 50s and partly cloudy—pretty much
ideal. (And big improvement over the rain and 30 mph wind of 2012 and the 28
degree weather of 2013).
Our strategy was to go out in group
along with Oliver who had the same BQ time. My goal was to restrain their
eagerness to run too fast in the opening miles. We stayed just under 9 min pace
the first couple miles (8:58 is 3:55 marathon time) and then Jodi and I stayed
around 8:50 pace through 10. I stayed around that pace as I watched Jodi slowly
disappear ahead of me. (Oliver had taken off about mile 3-4). Looking at the
splits, we can see that at mile 20 I was 2:58:44 and Miss Jodi was 2:57:14; she
had gained almost 10 seconds a mile on me and was running fantastically strong.
She had actually caught Oliver after she left me at 10 and ran quite a few
miles with him.
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Brown
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David
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5:41:27
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Brown
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Linda
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5:24:50
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Bryant
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Shelley
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3:34:09
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Folkendt
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Yancey
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4:06:34
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Lee
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Anita
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4:24:23
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Pedraza
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Monica
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4:38:49
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Rounsaville
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Katy
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3:54:51
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Smaira
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Nick
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3:21:06
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Valenzuela
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Oliver
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3:51:58
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Vasilescu
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Visenta
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4:16:11
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Volkman
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Jodi
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3:55:56
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Volkman
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John
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3:56:17
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Whitten
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Amanda
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3:46:59
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I was on my own running between
8:45-8:55 until mile 20 when I slowed to over 9. But then I got a boost by
running with Amanda who got me going an 8:20 pace for about half a mile until I
told her that I couldn’t keep that up and she needed to take off. Unlike Jodi
and I who struggled the last 4 miles and ran the miles at 9-9:45, Amanda
finished strong running sub 8’s including a 7:30 last mile. Jodi shattered the
4 hour barrier and missed qualifying for Boston by less than a minute. Since I
will be in the next age group for Boston 2016, I actually qualified by almost
14 minutes. Congratulations to Oliver who beat his BQ by over 3 minutes!
We had a nice group of 15 for the
pasta dinner the night before; you can see everyone in the pictures at
Shutterfly. In that group we got a couple of other PRs from Nick and Linda.
Also, big congratulations to Yancey for completing her very first marathon—and
doing so at close to 4 hours! The chart shows some others from our running groups
that I know ran the full.
This was Marathon #139;19 states on 2d go round; 8
provinces.
