The above photo is actually of a half marathon, not a full marathon. But it does have a nice view of the FINISH line banner. The photo is found on a website/blog called What. No Mints?
Today I decided to row a marathon to help make up for 5 days of no rowing due to laziness or one of its close relatives. I felt fine after half the marathon. But after another 10K my body started to complain. The mind was not complaining, but it took note of the body’s complaints. I finally decided to stop rather than enter into the torture zone. So the marathon was and will remain unfinished.
An interrupted marathon can be finished but today’s marathon was just plain stopped after a little over 37,000 meters. So it will have to be done over as a new session. At the moment, I’m taking aspirin and advil and hoping those will alleviate the various aches enough that I’ll be able to sleep okay.
Another view of the runners in the same event as the first photo. They will be even happier looking when they reach the finish line. I love the way people look when they are running. You can see the race on their faces. This is from the same blog, called What. No Mints? She hasn’t discovered indoor rowing yet…at least, I didn’t find any mention of rowing when I used the WordPress blog search thing. Instead, it showed several instances of the word “growing” which is totally not rowing.
Here are the screenshots and the report of today’s unfinished marathon.
The finish screen or at least what the screen looked like when I was too finished to keep going.The RowPro report of what was doneYou can see where I took two breaks, for the necessary purpose of visiting the bathroom because I had over-hydrated.The is the way it was charted by the online Concept2 logbook.
