Anybody run Grandma's Marathon yesterday?

**st8phan** · 06-22-2008, 07:46 PM

Just curious if anyone else was up in Duluth yesterday for Grandma's Marathon... I ran it for the 3rd time, but hadn't run a marathon in 4 years. My personal best was 4:36 and this year the first 13.1 miles went great and I ran that in 2:00 but then it got hot and I battled leg cramps from mile 14 on and finished in 4:57.

**brianhos** · 06-22-2008, 07:48 PM

4:57 is a pretty respectable marathon time. Heck crossing that line under your own power is respectable. My two marathon times at 4:33 and 4:50, so we should run together sometime!

**rworkman83** · 06-22-2008, 07:48 PM

A Buddy of mine ran it (he lives in Rochester now) for the first time. Said he finished it, but I don't know what his time was.

**dahliaclone** · 06-22-2008, 08:02 PM

If by 'ran the Grandma's Marathon' you mean 'was up in Duluth drinking heavily watching others run', then yes, I was there.

**Angie** · 06-22-2008, 08:08 PM

My sister-in-law ran it - pretty comparable times, I think. She was a little sore today! Duluth is such a hilly town!

**price26** · 06-22-2008, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by dahliaclone

If by 'ran the Grandma's Marathon' you mean 'was up in Duluth drinking heavily watching others run', then yes, I was there.

So you were doing Grandpa's Marathon . . .

**IsUaClone2** · 06-22-2008, 08:17 PM

I'm glad to see the interest in distance running even though I haven't done it in a while. My personal best marathon was the 1989 Detroit Free Press in 3:52. I was forty-five so you guys still have time to post a better time.

By the way, that was my first marathon and my last was not quite a year later at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. That was a death march as the temperature got into the low 90's, no clouds, and they ran out of cups so you had to take water from a hose. No severe injuries from the runners but a spectator fell off a curb and twisted an ankle.

**brianhos** · 06-22-2008, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by IsUaClone2

I'm glad to see the interest in distance running even though I haven't done it in a while. My personal best marathon was the 1989 Detroit Free Press in 3:52. I was forty-five so you guys still have time to post a better time.

By the way, that was my first marathon and my last was not quite a year later at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle. That was a death march as the temperature got into the low 90's, no clouds, and they ran out of cups so you had to take water from a hose. No severe injuries from the runners but a spectator fell off a curb and twisted an ankle.

I ran my second marathon in temps over 90 also, it was horrible. My split was like 2:02 then 2:52. The worst thing about it was I was in far better shape than the year before when I ran a 2:08, 2:26.

**jmb** · 06-22-2008, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by brianhos

I ran my second marathon in temps over 90 also, it was horrible. My split was like 2:02 then 2:52. The worst thing about it was I was in far better shape than the year before when I ran a 2:08, 2:26.

Doing DM this year and targeting 3:40...October should be conducive to better temps/times.

j

**st8phan** · 06-23-2008, 09:40 AM

I'm thinking about doing Des Moines too... Although it's the day after the Nebraska game :-( Ran DSM in 2003 in 4:41 and I remember it being really hilly but a decent course overall.

**Palmer** · 06-23-2008, 09:43 AM

I ran it in 1995....fractured my foot.

**brianhos** · 06-23-2008, 09:46 AM

Originally Posted by st8phan

I'm thinking about doing Des Moines too... Although it's the day after the Nebraska game :-( Ran DSM in 2003 in 4:41 and I remember it being really hilly but a decent course overall.

DM is hilly at the beginning, you have to run from downtown to DM university, and then up and down the hills south of grand for about 5 miles. Then you come out and head up to drake which is also nothing but hills. Once you hit the half way point over by drake, it is a long nice downhill and then totally flat from then on.