Hunting for Adventure

Nabbing a BQ, foray into marathon racing A1A Fort Lauderdale Marathon 2020 Race Report I was almost sure that I wouldn’t get it. In fact, I had already laid in my mind excuses to myself for why it wouldn’t happen- work had been stressful, the weather was going to be hot, my taper runs had felt terrible- and so on. Not to mention this goal I was chasing seemed to be a reach at best- likely almost an impossibility. I had never truly raced a marathon for one. I had completed the distance twice- once within a full Ironman and once about a year prior in a crazy trail event that featured 7k ft of elevation change and was essentially a run/walk event (oh and did I mention this was two weeks after that Ironman). Both of those events were >5h finish times. What I was attempting to do was shaving over an hour and a half off that time… But despite all the negativity in my brain, I tried to focus on the positives. I had smoothly navigated through a pretty grueling and high mil