Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Quad Cities Marathon - 9/28/08

So my next attempt at this marathon thing is in 10 days at the Quad Cites Marathon in Moline..I can without a doubt bet we'll have much better weather!! It can't get any worse than Sunday!! Got registered and got a hotel room Monday.. The route looks great! Covers 4 cities and two states: Illinois and Iowa. Goes over the Mississippi River, up on I74, and onto Arsenal Island which is an island out in the middle of the River..At mile 11 we pass in front of our hotel and at mile 20 we run very close to the finish line so we'll get to see and hear the crowd that's there. A guy here in the office Blake, has ran the 1/2 marathon (both start together) and he said it's a nice scenic route. Said that he's heard something about a brick wall hologram at mile 23.. that should be interesting.

So I'm back to running and got 5.5 miles in yesterday. Will do another 5 or 6 tomorrow then 14 on Saturday with next week being a quick taper..

3 comments:

Kent said...

Good luck in the QC race! It'll be my second attempt at the full distance, so I am hoping to do well. Thanks for the bit of info on mile 23 "wall."

Kari F said...

Thanks Kent!

So you've attempted quad cities before? Is the course pretty flat like they say it is??? I saw on your blog there's a pretty big hill at mile 2.. Hopefully it's not too bad.
I'm hoping for around 4:30... but it's my first marathon so I'll take just finishing it standing up!

Good luck!!

Kent said...

No, last year I did Des Moines for my first marathon. That's a great race, but the first 8 miles are pretty hilly. Here's mapmyrun (which has the elevation):
http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-states/il/moline/365708948

It looks like the biggest hill after that is only 30' climb on Arsenal Island.

4:30 is what I ran my first in, but I made every mistake in the book (starting too fast, drinking too much water near the end, etc.). Thanks and have a great race!