North Olympic Discovery Marathon results 2018

I posted my past Marathon information on Saturday's Picture of the week post, but I'll share it again in this post.

"There was a time when I could run faster. There was a time when I was asleep to life. There was a time that I woke up and said "I am alive"!

There was a time I couldn't finish a Marathon under the finish cutoff time, so I created my own event. There was a time I believed I could finish under the cutoff time.

That time is now."

My husband had put together a training plan this year that was for our Spartan races and for running The North Olympic Discovery NODM Marathon (him) a half marathon (me). At the end of our long run weekends after I had finished my half marathon training distance he would continue until he had his marathon training distance done. On his 18 mile training day, I was supposed to go only 16 miles, but I thought "I'm going to keep running with him". I had no trouble with the distance, so he suggested that I switch my race entry from the half marathon to the full marathon. The race director for the marathon was very easy to work with and with no trouble at all I was entered into the Marathon Walk  (early start 6 am). Since it had been so long since I'd done an official marathon, I really didn't know if I could make the cut off time, that's why we signed up for the early start time. The Marathon run start was an hour and a half later than us, with a 5 1/2 hour cut off time. I hoped that I would be able to finish under the early start cutoff time of 7 1/2 hours.

Packet pickup day was Saturday, a nice day as you can see in the photo below.

We met the shuttle bus in Port Angeles at 5:15 am for our ride to the start at the 7 Cedars Casino. Our plan was to run 7 minutes and walk 3 minute intervals as much as we could. We weren't going to be strict with this schedule. We walked most of the long ups and tried to run all of the downhills along the route. That worked out really well for me. I felt good the whole time.

Our official start photo.

The weather was nice and cool with a bit of humidity, the trail was pretty much protected from the weather with the big nice trees along the trail. There was a good wind and some rain as we headed towards the finish area. The last section of the route is out in the open and along the sea. Very pretty, and deceptive. We could see the finish area, but it was in reality quite a long distance yet.

Our Official finish photo.

My brother took a few photos of us as we finished. He and his wife ran the half marathon and my Dad also ran the Marathon that day. 

I like this photo that he took because it shows how much the wind was blowing.

Another one of us finishing.

We finished under the cutoff time - 6:45:18!

Garmin stats: 

total miles - 26.4 (my garmin) (official distance 26.2)

total ascent - 1129 feet

total ascent - 1152 feet

Relive video of the route -

https://youtu.be/AEZCybBiVEw