Today I got a magazine formatted result booklet made of newsprint of all the results for the 2008 Seattle Marathon which of course held my official results. In my age bracket (40-44) I came in 354th out of 408 runners with an official time of 2:31:15 and a chip time of 2:24:32, lame but that is ok, good to set your personal record low anyway so you can easily beat it next time. I am actually glad I ran it slow considering my ankle, though mostly it was the humidity that killed me. I have to say I am glad I finished, next time I go for under 2 hours.

The best time in my age group was a Canadian at 1:20:07. Fastest overall mens half marathon time was 1:11:48 from local runner Steve Dekoker. Kristi Houk finished the womens at 1:23:03. Mens Marathon finished at 2:33:57 from Beaverton’s Stuart Burton and womens by Annie Theissen at 3:02:04.

The total number of runners was 15535. The majority of runners – 8194 – ran in the half. The Chi running coach I met at Powells , Keith McConnell, PhD of Eugene,finished the full marathon walk at 5:31:53.