{"id":135,"date":"2007-12-10T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=135"},"modified":"2013-02-28T22:13:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T03:13:37","slug":"guest-review-st-jude-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2007\/guest-review-st-jude-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Review: St Jude Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Indianapolis native Allison Martin recently completed her second marathon at the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjudemarathon.org\/\"><em>St Jude Marathon<\/em><\/a><em> in Memphis, TN.&nbsp; Martin now lives and works in Nashville, TN and plans to complete her third marathon next spring! She ran the race with her friend Bridget.&nbsp;Excellent job Allison!<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>YES! Another marathon completed!<\/p>\n<p>This weekend my running partner Bridget and I ran the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note_redirect.php?note_id=8074656993&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stjudemarathon.org%2F&amp;h=301e990a5e56998e55bf2f706ab7279d\">St. Jude Marathon<\/a> in Memphis. The weather was great&#8211;40s when we started and maybe 60 by the end&#8211;with a clear sky and bright sun. Not too strong a sun though. The course was relatively flat with some gradual hills throughout, and sadly some at the end. (Who puts a three-fourths a way up a hill right before mile 24? C&#8217;mon!) And several Elvis impersonators, including two at the finish line for a photo op. <br \/>Bridget had been having knee pain for the past month or longer, classic runner&#8217;s knee, and it started bothering her around mile 13 a lot. We got these way cool temporary tattoos at the registration on Friday that showed your mile times based on your desired finish time. (Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note_redirect.php?note_id=8074656993&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pacetat.com&amp;h=8f12c6aef53d2d9a8fe07379cd49d674\">www.pacetat.com<\/a>) So we knew that we were a consistent 2 minutes ahead of our 4:45 finish time. Until mile 15. We slowed down quite a bit. Bridget finally convinced me to go on without her since I felt good and her knee was killing. So I took off, determined one of us would finish in our goal time. <\/p>\n<p>And man! I felt GREAT and kept a consistent 10:30 min mile. Not until mile 22 did I really start to slow a bit but by that time, I was so close to the end, I didn&#8217;t even care! I ran the whole time, only stopping to stretch at water stops cause my hamstrings were extremely tight!<\/p>\n<p>And then&#8211;there it was! AutoZone Park! I entered, ran around the back of the baseball field and crossed the finish line at 4 hours, 42 minutes and 33 seconds!<\/p>\n<p>HOORAY! Now for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/note_redirect.php?note_id=8074656993&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmmarathon.com%2Fhome.html&amp;h=39d39f287ee74dfbf4005bed51202ce7\">Country Music<\/a> April 26th and maybe a 4:20 finish?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:74407360-35a5-40c1-97cb-5ef8e991b414\" contenteditable=\"false\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/race%20review\" rel=\"tag\">race review<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Marathon\" rel=\"tag\">Marathon<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-5426328079068557\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"468x60_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\n\/\/2007-05-28: Nick\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"4949967308\";\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis native Allison Martin recently completed her second marathon at the St Jude Marathon in Memphis, TN.&nbsp; Martin now lives and works in Nashville, TN and plans to complete her third marathon next spring! She ran the race with her friend Bridget.&nbsp;Excellent job Allison! &nbsp; YES! Another marathon completed! This weekend my running partner Bridget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon","category-race-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-2b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":148,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2007\/december-2007-highlights\/","url_meta":{"origin":135,"position":0},"title":"December 2007 Highlights","author":"crossn81","date":"December 31, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of the holidays, December is a very busy month for most people, when you throw in a major move and a new Internet home, WOW it gets busy! 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