Charlton Beats Jessica in LA marathon with last second surge of energy.

Charlton did it! Results from lamarathon.com:

Bib

FName

State

Age

Sex

ChipTime

ClockTime

Overall

SexPl

DivPl

AgeGrade

Starttime

Pace

Split10K

Half

Split30K

13969

Charlton

CA

21

M

05:33:15

05:38:24

8688

6273

664

37.6%

00:05:09.56

12:42.8

1:07:18

2:35:53

3:43:55

7247

Jessica

CA

21

F

05:33:15

05:38:23

8689

2416

334

40.6%

Inexplicably, I beat Charlie on time, but lost to him in overall place (8688 vs 8689). Hmm...

Here's the breakdown for me, as well as I can recall:

• Miles 1-9: Start out about 10 min mile pace, slowing to about 11 min miles as the course levels out. This part goes by fast, feeling generally good. Legs tight; try to stretch/massage my right hip about mile 9 or so.
• Miles 10-17: Not feeling as great as I think I should be. Most likely it's the heat--it wasn't particularly bad, but warmer than I'm used to and I am just really lame when it comes to running in the heat. Or maybe I could blame it on poor training. Who knows.
  
• Miles 18-20: feeling pretty terrible. In retrospect, I guess you could say I hit "the wall" here. We start to walk a little too long after water stations, and during mile 20 or 21 we stop to get tylenol. I realize we're not going to make 5 hrs and get depressed, which doesn't help.
  
• Miles 21-22: Still not feeling too hot. Drinking at every water station, also put some more bananas and oranges in my belly. Walk/run at this point.
  
• Mile 22 or so: tylenol kicks in, I get my second wind! Oh god it was so great being able to move my legs properly again
• Mile 23-25: Feeling pretty good
• Mile 25-end: Feeling awesome! During the last stretch there were so many people lined up along the street, cheering us on. Super awesome! It's a shame Charlton beat me in the last moments. I thought I was going to win and everything. I he has such awesome strong legs to boost him through the last seconds of the race.
  

And pictures:

I look so hopeful here. It must be near the end:

The woman on the left is apparently some kind of a zombie:

I like the woman in the back here. Raise the roof, baby:

I told Charlie, "There's only one thing you have to do, and that's look good when you cross the finish line. The rest of the race doesn't even matter." I'd say we accomplished that. =) He was fantastic those last few moments.