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Race Result
| Racer: |
Brady DeHoust |
| Race: |
Marine Corps Marathon |
| Date: |
Sunday, October 28, 2001 |
| Location: |
Arlington, VA |
| Race Type: |
Run - Marathon |
| Age Group: |
Male 25 - 29 |
| Time: |
3:15:51 |
| Overall Place: |
375 / 21078 |
| Age Group Place: |
73 |
| Comment: |
Leave it to the Marines to put the hill at the VERY end... |
Race Report:
Writing this race report in April of 2004 is not going to portray the race details as if I wert to have written this in 2001, but I thought I'd try anyway to write up as much as I could from memory...
I ran MCM in 2000 as my first marathon. I had no idea how to train, or what "race strategy" meant. For my first 15-mile run in 2000, I remember leaving Deidre's apartment in Vienna with two gatorade bottles (twist off :\) in hand. I counted each mile as they passed on the OD trail, making sure I logged my 15. When I was through, it hurt to stand, sit, lay down...nothing really was comfortable. I sat in the shower for 30 minutes in agony...how was I going to run another 11.2?
I changed my training "strategy" for the 2002 MCM. I decided to train using time and not distance. I had a six-week key period that would include two runs of 2:10, two runs of 2:30, and two runs of 2:40 in the consecutive six-week period. I also started to do some 800 repeat track workouts with a friend of mine who had a sub 3-hour marathon to his credit. I vividly remember our final track workout, consisting of 9x800 in the pouring rain. The 800s were hard...very hard. We'd normally cool down with a 15-minute jog back to the house and crush $2 burgers from Cowboy Cafe afterwards...I miss those burgers!
Anyway...the race. I improved by 23 minutes over my marathon time from 2000. I did, however, severely slow at mile 21 -- the last 4 miles were absolutely brutal. The hill at the end was a suffer fest...a small shuffle got me to the finish. I learned a ton about training, and pacing. It really hit home that endurance takes a long time to build.
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