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Message: [QUOTE="SCNCHuskie, post: 4451415, member: 11200"] I ran my first marathon one day when I was having a bad weekend and needed something to do, after never having run more than 5 miles in my life at one time. When I got to the starting line and everyone was comparing notes about how they trained, I interjected that I’ve never run more than 5 miles in my life and almost never run other than an occasional jog through the neighborhood. They called the ambulance driver over and told him to keep an eye on me. I said, “I’m going to put 1 foot in front of the other and when I can’t go any farther I’m gonna stop.” When I entered the stadium, where you had to run one lap to complete the 26.2 miles I heard people saying, “That’s the guy, holy cow he didn’t die!” It definitely was not a blazing fast marathon time, but under the circumstances I was happy with the 4:12, which would’ve been slightly faster if I didn’t cramp up on that final lap and watched the clock quickly ticking away. I ran two more after that, one that I, “trained” for, (in the vein of Babe Ruth, Ken Stabler or Allen Iverson -practice? Practice?). There’s also kind of a funny story to the one I trained for, but I won’t bore you with that one. [/QUOTE]