LA Marathon 2009

At least I made it this far

2011-05-09T19:21:00.000-07:00

I was thinking to myself, what was the point now, I may have to walk the rest of this race. But still I am going to finish it and I will have to use up energy to do that. At least I made it this far.

Finally

2011-05-09T19:20:00.000-07:00

Finally up ahead I see Eddie waiting with the bag that had the Carbs for me to load up on.

The End?

2011-05-03T11:55:00.000-07:00

I could'nt believe that it was going to end like this and what was worse is that I could not see Eddie yet. I thought that I had missed him for the second time because I zoomed through mile 10.

Kiss a 3:30 Goodbye!

2011-05-01T07:39:00.000-07:00

I had a 2:48 at mile 20 and my plan was to make a 3:30. Here I realized that I had to kiss that goodbye. So I was upset at myself.

2011-04-29T10:25:00.000-07:00

I caught the attention of the paramedics right away. Three of them checked it out. They didn't want to pop it because of liability reasons so they gave me a needle. It didn't work, so I took a safety pin from my Bib and popped it myself. It was not a pretty sight, I actually made these guys flinch. Anyway they bandaged me up and here I am walking away from that.

Mile 20

2011-04-28T22:06:00.000-07:00

Here I am reaching Mile 20. I noticed something was wrong with my left foot. Since I didn't see my friend Eddie yet, I decided to pull over and check my foot on the curb only to discover a blister that took up a quarter size of my foot.

LA Marathon 2009

2011-04-28T10:56:00.000-07:00

This is about my experience at the 2009 L.A. Marathon. It is dedicated to my friend, Bass Instructor and Coach Eddie Resto that helped me train for a year to prepare for it and that was there at mile 10 and mile 20 to aid me with a bag that contained Carbs for me to load up on and to change shoes and sox and anything else. He also took most of the pics.