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<\/a><\/p>\nNote that i have 2 bibs on my shirt. \u00a0Here is the story. \u00a0The top one (green lettering) is for the 1\/2 Marathon. \u00a0The lower one (red letters) is for a 4-man team relay. \u00a0 On Thursday a friend of mine called me and told me that they needed a runner due to a cancellation. (needs to be a team of 4 and they were 1-down) \u00a0The organizers allow runners to run the 1st leg of the relay + their own race; so essentially you are not running any more than you would be already. The only difference is at the halfway point of the 1\/2 Marathon I had to hand over the “chip” to the next relay man, he starts running and I also continue on my way to finish my 1\/2 Marathon. \u00a0Was that clear? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Anyway, so we are off into the darkness! \u00a0I am somewhere in this mess. The first 200-300 meters are a bit chaotic but very quickly people find their pace and it thins out.<\/p>\n
Here is one of the water stops. All of them are staffed with volunteers and many of them are corporate groups. \u00a0My favorite though is the water stop of the Indian community. \u00a0They have traditional music and clothes and all kinds of cheering going on. \u00a0Very fun to run by their stop and get a drink.<\/p>\n After the run, runners have access to a well deserved food area; lots of fruit, granola bars, water, Gatorade, etc.<\/p>\n What I assume is somewhat of unique to the Cayman Marathon … Caybrew is there to serve up some of their great tasting beers for finishers. \u00a0Many of us are done before 7am so its an interesting concept. \u00a0That beer the gentleman is pouring is mine. \u00a0 I just burned a ton of calories before most people got out of bed on this Sunday morning, so why not right?<\/p>\n Here is the finishers medal! I also got one for the team relay. \u00a0This medal is really heavy and of nice quality.<\/p>\n So, how did I do? \u00a0I am pleased to report that “quite well” would be an appropriate answer. \u00a0Out of 726 runners, I came in 35th overall at a time of 1h41 minutes. \u00a0A bit better than in 2012 and almost identical time (few seconds difference from 2011).<\/p>\n On the relay part, this is where I am getting a bit of a kick. \u00a0 The team I ran for (and was a replacement runner as explained earlier) was a team of guys from Kenya – if you know anything about running in that part of the world is that the runners are really fast. \u00a0Well, I “beat” my 3-teammates (I got the best time of all 4 of us) and our team finished 10th out of 108 teams. Not bad at all. \u00a0A very successful day I would say.<\/p>\n Julie’s friend Valerie also did well. \u00a0She placed 128th overall and 34th women (out of 418) which is excellent, especially for her first 1\/2 marathon.<\/p>\n Here is the course! The whole bottom part is essentially two directions. \u00a0You go along the coast all the way to the right, then back toward town and then up Walkers Road (the path not on the ocean) and then to the Start\/Finish.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n