I trained for eight months for one of the most difficult Marathons in the world. The Apache Marathon in Denver, Colorado. I wake up at six am so that I can arrive at the marathon in time to go for a warm up run and properly stretch before the beginning of the race. there are lots of runners here as the re is every year around five thousand or so runners and I luckily got to start the marathon in the front so that I don't have to run through a giant crowd of people to get ahead. Right after I finish my stretches and line up the announcer start counting down the start of the race,” 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5…” then bang the announcer fires the gun and were all off, there are thousands of people in the stands watching us run the start of the race.
Once I have successfully powered through to the first mile marker I realized that there were only twenty miles left and my trainer on the sideline was telling me my time and telling me to slow down my pace, because I was going to need as much energy…show more content… Once I am done stretching my legs still hurt even though I stretched, which made me start to feel that it didn’t help me at all. I am now at the halfway point of the marathon and I know this because there is a marker on the road that says “thirteen mile marker” which raises my confidence since I know that I am halfway done with the marathon, I check my time to see that I have been running for two hours and my legs are starting to hurt a lot more than they were earlier, for the first time this race I start to walk but not just for one mile, but for two which raises my mile time from eight minutes up to twelve minutes per mile, which is going to mean that if I don’t pick up the pace soon that I would be way behind the other runners and not reach my time goal of four hours and thirty
