My LA Marathon experience (LONG)
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lurkers, preOps, postOps, EVERYONE,
Thank you so much I cannot tell you how many times along the course I thought of each of you and our journey. From Coach Scott our OH inspiraton to the lurkers. I thought of Suzanne from the CALI board and the cheer she gave me and kept saying it in my head as I was putting one foot in front of the other ONE MILE AT A TIME.
This was not my best day........but the experience has changed me forever!
It began waking up at 2:00am, I probably got a half hour of sleep at Luana's home. Thank you Luana. I got up tried to pry my eyes open stared at the walls for a few then went and watched some tv got up got dressed in my MARATHON GEAR (I just love saying marathon) and waited for the ladies to wake up. We got things together and then headed out the door a little after 3:30am to Kevin's house. We arrived at Kevin's at 4:00 switched drivers and Kevin drove us into LA we arrived in LA at 5:00 or a little before we then got to the site (after many road closures and Cyndi and Gary's driving direction assistance) at 5:30ish.
5:30 with the APLA training team at Pershing square, wow! I was tearing up here and there so excited and so proud of all of us. We saw our pace group and Cyndi and Gene (groove daddy) and all of our wonderful site assistants and Coach Scott with his turquoise hair!
6:00 ish we headed over to the Metro with one of the APLA volunteers (now keep in mind I was dreading the Metro far more than the Marathon) I get claustrophobic sp?. The Metro was awesome Gene (groove daddy) said think you are at Disneyland (that helped so much) met some wonderful runners learned a few tricks I might try next did you read that next training session!
Got to Universal about 6:40am huddled around found a porta potty made it mine then came back to the APLA gathering point talked and that was followed by an awesome Pep rally by our coaches cindy and SCOTT and our program reps Patricia and Jared (whoa nelly Jared can fire up a crowd) I love the line he had us chant I'm a frickin hero! We talked about all the money we had raised to cure AIDS and the training over the last six months WOW IT WAS AWESOME. We then headed (I swear) a mile (extra!) to the start line crowded by 25998 other runners Lu and I were together. Very powerful and fun. We listened to Ace from AI sing Amazing Grace and then the Mayor of LA sent us UPHILL (I still hold him personally responsible for the hill).
The marathon begins (oops I forgot to mention how much I was cramping standing waiting both feet and my left calf) I was thinking this might not happen but, quickly talked myself through that!
I think Lu and I did really well up to mile 8 (good times on our 10K that Ronda posted to the CALI board) then I got a sock and shoe change that I can only describe as a pit stop for NASCAR my nephew and brother in law zip zip changing my socks and shoes. So awesome they changed my second skin on my raw blister from the week before (which came off immediately after leaving them at mile 8)
The race was beautiful the hollywood bowl the 8 miles down hilll, we saw tons of people (some OH CALI board cheerers) we know including my family at mile 3 hollywood and highland A NEEDED BOOST (I swear my family just went from one site to the next to see me, I LOVE THEM). Mile 8 we saw Leonard(THANK YOU) GOT A NEEDED HUG. Then right after had the 'pit stop'. Between mile 8-9 we saw little miss Dana Cool and that was awesome as well she was out on the course cheering and supporting the TNT training program peeps (she trained and ran a marathon with them) and she supported us her hug was awesome as well.
Mile 9 I had died so I thought but, I didn't know what was ahead. I told Luana to go ahead and run her race she said no a few times then took off, good for her.
I ran miles 10-17 in a daze (I lost my food on the course) I had nothing since 6:00 with the exception of gels, salt, gatorade, and water. It was hot! I was delerious sp? I was walking so slowly with my mouth open and probably drooling I was so hot and my feet hurt SO BADLY. I never thought I would make it. IT WAS SO HOT. I was hungry my stomach was growling and I had no energy nothing in the tan****pt thinking about all of you supporting me monetarily and your thoughts and prayers and that kept me going, I did Suzanne's cheers, I relived Steve's hugs, saw each face from the dinner the night before all70 faces. Thought about my 'silent' friends on the board and their support and just kept putting one foot in front of the other ONE MILE AT A TIME. My BIL was trying since before mile 14 to get me a protein bar and I finally got one when he and nephew walked from mile 19 to meet me a little past mile 17 when I saw them I went straight to the sidewalk and fell to the ground I began shaking and crying profusely sp? I was dead so I thought an angel man and woman stopped by told them to elevate my feet and the lady put my shoe bag under my head. My nephew did the 'pit stop' zip zip aired out my elevated feet replaced the second skin that came off moments after they put it on at mile 8. I ate the protein bar angel Celest sent with them that LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE I ate half and in a few minutes came back to life. Walked with my nephew and my BIL to mile 19 enjoyed the sites caught a little steam (my FEET WERE SO BAD) but I had energy from half the protein bar.
Mile 19 although by the time I arrived it was pretty well poof gone my people were there with hugs and love my niece, my sister, celest, gary, mr. and mrs bolliver, and leonard THANK YOU YOU ALL SAVED ME. I stopped went to the ground after my hugs did the same thing and ate the other half of my protein bar.
My BIL who is fantastic as is all my family walked the remainder of the course with me!
I was so much better just living with the pain thinking of all the people that suffer daily and kept marching forward my nephew called me their little soldier~! My BIL helped so much so nice to be with someone on the course.
I was fine the remainder of the course dealing with the pain til I saw Coach Scott oh the tears I was crying again he made this all possible. He made me push through the pain and delirium (is that a word) he made me the marathon finisher I am today! THANK YOU SCOTT.
I did not think I would make it but finally in the heart of LA I saw the mile 26 poster and Chris said this is it Lynnie you did it you are GOING TO CROSS THE FINISH LINE. He went to the side got some pictures and went sidewalks cheering me on. I passed quite a few groups from mile 25 -26 moving faster (still not running) then I saw the finish line as I turned on flower (I think) wow got close and ran my weigh across the finish line the last of the 3L's running from OBESITY I cried at actually making it across the finish line feeling sick from the heat, no food, and my feet that were so bad!
All of my peeps kept saying time does not matter YOU DID IT. But, when someone from APLA a runner said you know those of us that finished over 7:30 hours later really worked so hard to stay mentally on course and to finish that distance is AMAZING.
So, even though I have not been on the the tv show amazing race I ran/walked my own AMAZING RACE the LA MARATHON 3-4-07 and I have my bling bling (medal) to prove it!
Thank you to the city of Los Angeles the people are beautiful and the majority lifted my spirit on a very tough day THANK YOU.
Thank you to my text messages, vm, emails, family, coach, running buddies, to EVERYONE you lift me up and gave me strength to finish the LA Marathon.
I almost passed out at the car heat exhaustion lacted acid and had another episode at 11:30 at night blood sugar dropping and shaking feeling like I would pass out. My protein angel (thank you thank you thank you) saved me and I am here today.
Now next training session and marathon I really pray it is below 65 degrees not over 85 degrees! Yes, I TYPED NEXT MARATHON.
As I told Kevin I will have a He!! of an improved time NEXT TIME! My celebration run is my best time so I know I can do better and better than that!
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH, sorry this is so long but, you do not have to read it (but I hope you did!)
for those of you that still are THANK YOU again.
GO out and CHALLENGE yourself today! My day was so filled with pain, heat exhaustion, and disappointment I never thought I would meet my challenge and I did! Challenge yourself TODAY!
I am so thankful for my surgeon and my lapband surgery that changed my life from not being able to cross the street without stopping to take a breath and a break to completing the LA Marathon!
Thank you Earl and Jeremy and everyone on the board for inspiring me to finish through the pain!
Thank you all again
lurkers, preOps, postOps, EVERYONE,Thank you so much I cannot tell you how many times along the course I thought of each of you and our journey. From Coach Scott our OH inspiraton to the lurkers. I thought of Suzanne from the CALI board and the cheer she gave me and kept saying it in my head as I was putting one foot in front of the other ONE MILE AT A TIME.
This was not my best day........but the experience has changed me forever!
It began waking up at 2:00am, I probably got a half hour of sleep at Luana's home. Thank you Luana. I got up tried to pry my eyes open stared at the walls for a few then went and watched some tv got up got dressed in my MARATHON GEAR (I just love saying marathon) and waited for the ladies to wake up. We got things together and then headed out the door a little after 3:30am to Kevin's house. We arrived at Kevin's at 4:00 switched drivers and Kevin drove us into LA we arrived in LA at 5:00 or a little before we then got to the site (after many road closures and Cyndi and Gary's driving direction assistance) at 5:30ish.
5:30 with the APLA training team at Pershing square, wow! I was tearing up here and there so excited and so proud of all of us. We saw our pace group and Cyndi and Gene (groove daddy) and all of our wonderful site assistants and Coach Scott with his turquoise hair!
6:00 ish we headed over to the Metro with one of the APLA volunteers (now keep in mind I was dreading the Metro far more than the Marathon) I get claustrophobic sp?. The Metro was awesome Gene (groove daddy) said think you are at Disneyland (that helped so much) met some wonderful runners learned a few tricks I might try next did you read that next training session!
Got to Universal about 6:40am huddled around found a porta potty made it mine then came back to the APLA gathering point talked and that was followed by an awesome Pep rally by our coaches cindy and SCOTT and our program reps Patricia and Jared (whoa nelly Jared can fire up a crowd) I love the line he had us chant I'm a frickin hero! We talked about all the money we had raised to cure AIDS and the training over the last six months WOW IT WAS AWESOME. We then headed (I swear) a mile (extra!) to the start line crowded by 25998 other runners Lu and I were together. Very powerful and fun. We listened to Ace from AI sing Amazing Grace and then the Mayor of LA sent us UPHILL (I still hold him personally responsible for the hill).
The marathon begins (oops I forgot to mention how much I was cramping standing waiting both feet and my left calf) I was thinking this might not happen but, quickly talked myself through that!
I think Lu and I did really well up to mile 8 (good times on our 10K that Ronda posted to the CALI board) then I got a sock and shoe change that I can only describe as a pit stop for NASCAR my nephew and brother in law zip zip changing my socks and shoes. So awesome they changed my second skin on my raw blister from the week before (which came off immediately after leaving them at mile 8)
The race was beautiful the hollywood bowl the 8 miles down hilll, we saw tons of people (some OH CALI board cheerers) we know including my family at mile 3 hollywood and highland A NEEDED BOOST (I swear my family just went from one site to the next to see me, I LOVE THEM). Mile 8 we saw Leonard(THANK YOU) GOT A NEEDED HUG. Then right after had the 'pit stop'. Between mile 8-9 we saw little miss Dana Cool and that was awesome as well she was out on the course cheering and supporting the TNT training program peeps (she trained and ran a marathon with them) and she supported us her hug was awesome as well.
Mile 9 I had died so I thought but, I didn't know what was ahead. I told Luana to go ahead and run her race she said no a few times then took off, good for her.
I ran miles 10-17 in a daze (I lost my food on the course) I had nothing since 6:00 with the exception of gels, salt, gatorade, and water. It was hot! I was delerious sp? I was walking so slowly with my mouth open and probably drooling I was so hot and my feet hurt SO BADLY. I never thought I would make it. IT WAS SO HOT. I was hungry my stomach was growling and I had no energy nothing in the tan****pt thinking about all of you supporting me monetarily and your thoughts and prayers and that kept me going, I did Suzanne's cheers, I relived Steve's hugs, saw each face from the dinner the night before all70 faces. Thought about my 'silent' friends on the board and their support and just kept putting one foot in front of the other ONE MILE AT A TIME. My BIL was trying since before mile 14 to get me a protein bar and I finally got one when he and nephew walked from mile 19 to meet me a little past mile 17 when I saw them I went straight to the sidewalk and fell to the ground I began shaking and crying profusely sp? I was dead so I thought an angel man and woman stopped by told them to elevate my feet and the lady put my shoe bag under my head. My nephew did the 'pit stop' zip zip aired out my elevated feet replaced the second skin that came off moments after they put it on at mile 8. I ate the protein bar angel Celest sent with them that LITERALLY SAVED MY LIFE I ate half and in a few minutes came back to life. Walked with my nephew and my BIL to mile 19 enjoyed the sites caught a little steam (my FEET WERE SO BAD) but I had energy from half the protein bar.
Mile 19 although by the time I arrived it was pretty well poof gone my people were there with hugs and love my niece, my sister, celest, gary, mr. and mrs bolliver, and leonard THANK YOU YOU ALL SAVED ME. I stopped went to the ground after my hugs did the same thing and ate the other half of my protein bar.
My BIL who is fantastic as is all my family walked the remainder of the course with me!
I was so much better just living with the pain thinking of all the people that suffer daily and kept marching forward my nephew called me their little soldier~! My BIL helped so much so nice to be with someone on the course.
I was fine the remainder of the course dealing with the pain til I saw Coach Scott oh the tears I was crying again he made this all possible. He made me push through the pain and delirium (is that a word) he made me the marathon finisher I am today! THANK YOU SCOTT.
I did not think I would make it but finally in the heart of LA I saw the mile 26 poster and Chris said this is it Lynnie you did it you are GOING TO CROSS THE FINISH LINE. He went to the side got some pictures and went sidewalks cheering me on. I passed quite a few groups from mile 25 -26 moving faster (still not running) then I saw the finish line as I turned on flower (I think) wow got close and ran my weigh across the finish line the last of the 3L's running from OBESITY I cried at actually making it across the finish line feeling sick from the heat, no food, and my feet that were so bad!
All of my peeps kept saying time does not matter YOU DID IT. But, when someone from APLA a runner said you know those of us that finished over 7:30 hours later really worked so hard to stay mentally on course and to finish that distance is AMAZING.
So, even though I have not been on the the tv show amazing race I ran/walked my own AMAZING RACE the LA MARATHON 3-4-07 and I have my bling bling (medal) to prove it!
Thank you to the city of Los Angeles the people are beautiful and the majority lifted my spirit on a very tough day THANK YOU.
Thank you to my text messages, vm, emails, family, coach, running buddies, to EVERYONE you lift me up and gave me strength to finish the LA Marathon.
I almost passed out at the car heat exhaustion lacted acid and had another episode at 11:30 at night blood sugar dropping and shaking feeling like I would pass out. My protein angel (thank you thank you thank you) saved me and I am here today.
Now next training session and marathon I really pray it is below 65 degrees not over 85 degrees! Yes, I TYPED NEXT MARATHON.
As I told Kevin I will have a He!! of an improved time NEXT TIME! My celebration run is my best time so I know I can do better and better than that!
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH, sorry this is so long but, you do not have to read it (but I hope you did!)
for those of you that still are THANK YOU again.
GO out and CHALLENGE yourself today! My day was so filled with pain, heat exhaustion, and disappointment I never thought I would meet my challenge and I did! Challenge yourself TODAY!
I am so thankful for my surgeon and my lapband surgery that changed my life from not being able to cross the street without stopping to take a breath and a break to completing the LA Marathon!
Thank you Earl and Jeremy and everyone on the board for inspiring me to finish through the pain!
Thank you all again
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