Covenant Health Knoxville Marathon 2011

AWESOME race! Still waiting on the official time. This is pretty close to the gun time; chip time should be just a hair lower... but who's counting? 
First marathon was amazing. Weather was AWESOME, I got to run with a friend from Alabama I hadn't seen in ages (at least for the first 15 miles, before he turned on the afterburners :) .... Jodie, Bailey, and Myers,--err, Darth Vader--made it out to see me near Island Home and it made my day. I set out with the goal of 4:30 and wheeled in right under. I feel pretty good, even considering how much I ran too fast during the first half (at the split I was at 2:04). Add in a little extra morale from Blount Community Church (the Kenny Crook/Andy Self 4? person relay team), and it made for a great race. Sure I'm sore and just had to drain blisters from under 3 toenails (bleck!), but it was just plain awesome. The end in Neyland Stadium was very cool. The only downside is that Myers ran the kids mile last night (16 min!), and he is TOTALLY convinced that he got first place, even though there was a big line of kids in front of me... which is fine, but at lunch today, he said "Gratulations Dad. You did a good job running but you didn't get first place like me!"