Thursday, May 19, 2011

#9 - A Rural Marathon

May 1, 2011: 1-mile warmup, Gettysburg North-South Marathon (1st, 2:37.12). 27 miles.

Splits: 6:05, 5:51, 5:57, 5:53, 6:02, 6:00, 5:59, 5:59, 5:54, 5:47, 5:48, 6:06, 5:47, 5:48, 6:10, 5:51, 6:01, 6:14, 6:14, 5:50, 5:48, 6:03, 6:15, 6:18, 6:10, 6:21

Elevation chart: It's in the lower right corner. Splits are here, too - though you will see that I forgot to stop my watching after crossing the finish line.

Slideshow: All the photos have captions.

Gettysburg College Sports Information picked up Cory Mull's article for the Hanover Evening Sun

In all of these videos - particularly with the fourth one - background talk is the best part. This picks it up at photo No. 4:



Russell Tavern Road, one of my favorites from college:



Halfway:




My mom took this video in the early 20s. Listen to the background chatter:



Finish (clock shows unofficial time):

5 comments:

Charlie Ban said...

How cool! They gave you a medal!

RM said...

"like running on the L.A. freeway"

You are right - background chatter is hilarious.

Dickson Mercer said...

A medal AND a cannon.

Brandon Stumbo said...

Nice work dude! You didn't even look tired. I'm sure you had a few more miles left in you.

Otter said...

Dix,
I am so proud of you. The fact that you could run by your mother with out an "Oh Mom!" when she calls an olympic quality marathon runner...."Honey Bun." You are a man of amazing determination....
The video makes this so much more real...thanks for posting it.