St. George Marathon Race Recap
I haven't been doing many races in the past year but I recently did the St. George Marathon. I have not ran a lot of marathons in my racing career in fact I think I've done more Ironman triathlons (15) than marathons over the years. I have been very busy but thought I'd like to challenge myself and run a marathon. St. George was a good choice because I've heard it's a great course and really well organized and it's close to Vegas. A lot of the course is downhill which was good for me because I am usually a good downhill runner. I ran the Revel Mt. Charleston race several years ago and had one of my best races and qualified for Boston. My finishing time there was 3hrs 39 min. I wanted to run some long downhills training for this race but I didn't have the opportunity to do that more than once when I ran 16 miles down from Red Rock (mostly downhill). My second to last long week of training went great and I felt good. I knew I wouldn't be fast but felt