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I am very excited to say that I finished my second Marathon and am very pleased with a chip time of 3:59:11. Looking at my training log, I really didn't ramp it up until the last few months, so i am already looking forward to next year.

It was a beautiful day in Tampa and we had great conditions to run in. nice and cool at the start, getting warmer as the sun rose. Again there was headwind the last few miles, but I prayed and kept moving forward. I have to say, crowd support did help me finish. there were hundreds of children from a Nike run program out lining the street at mile 22, and if it weren't for them I doubt I would have broken 4 Hours. I slapped all their hands like I was Ryan Hall, winning the darn thing. But it was awesome.

I got to run with someone from the runners world forum, and she is a professor in Maryland, i will post a link here for her. I forget what her field was but it is sports related.

I have dropped about 15 pounds since last years marathon and that made a difference as well. I pushed the wall out to mile 23, next year NO WALL.