Marathon Men

Do you ever feel like some people are just gluttin for punishment? Some days I think that would describe my husband and my son.

They ran their marathon in September. They did pretty well but didn’t finish in quite the times they would have liked to so DJ is saying he wants to run another one, Dave’s not so sure. He’s done this twice already.

As part of the preparation for their marathon Dave and DJ decided to ran a half marathon the month before the actual marathon. On the day of the Half Marathon Dave ran the race in the morning, then went and played a soccer game afterwards and then they both hiked to the top of Mount Timpanogos, coming down the mountain that night in the dark – that’s 33 miles in one day. I heard the trek down the mountain in the dark was quite an adventure.

They started their day at 4:30 AM and got home the next morning at 2:30 AM. Some people’s kids…

It was cold and rainy on the day of the Marathon but Dave said the rain didn’t last long. The cold however stuck around. One of Dave’s best friends from High School flew in to run the marathon with them. Dave said they ran together the first mile and he didn’t see his friend again. His friend has been running regularly and Dave told him to go on ahead.

Dave’s knee locked up at about mile 8 and he at times was dragging his leg to keep going. Some of the other runner’s offered him some Ibuprofen but he doesn’t like to take pills so he turned them down. Finally at mile 18 he accepted a big horse pill of Ibuprofen. He didn’t have any water so he had to just put it in his mouth and let it dissolve. It was disgusting. He finally found someone with some extra water so he could rinse his mouth.

The pain finally stopped at mile 19 and Dave could finally stop running again. He finally caught up to DJ at mile 22. DJ was having a hard time too. He was very sore. They both said if they do this again they’ll train more.

Suffice it to say they limped around for a couple of days after the marathon. The things some people do for fun!