Photos from my 2007 Perth Marathon
At the start of the 2007 Perth Marathon with Burswood Casino in the background in the photo below...
Near Como Beach jetty on the Swan River, alongside the Kwinana Freeway, about 34km done, about 8km to go, pushing into the north westerley headwinds at this point, but still hitting 6-7min per km and mowing down a few runners struggling with the infamous last 10km of a marathon...My stopwatch says about 3hrs 43minutes or something like that...
As you can see a few cyclists out there also. Photo above you can see one of the drinks stations ahead manned by the wonderful volunteers of the WA Marathon club Photo below I went for my last GU here, a coffee GU, and washed it down with the last of my mountain blast powerade...
After about 37km of running near Coode St in South Perth, its time to scull some cocacola to fire up for the last 5km...
less than 200m to go to the finish, about 42km done...
INSERT FINISH PHOTO from Fuse photography HERE...
coming soon (next few weeks)...
After the race in the Marathon club clubrooms with hundreds of other marathon and relay runners, happy to land my 4th consecutive Perth Marathon finishers medallion...in spite of those annoying blood blisters...
After the marathon with my training top to remember the occasion, and to remind me to keep training hard, and hopefully maintain the determination to do better next time...
even more photos coming soon...e.g. my actual finish with the clock above my head is on fuse photography will get it soon...
3 Comments:
Great photos! You look like you did it easy!!
Thanks Celeste!
I guess after the blisters I was just running to finish at around 6 minutes per km and try and get under 4.40, and I was passing a lot of people easily, so probably could have pushed a bit harder, but I was still a cripple by the end...Quads were only really sore for one day after whereas in the past its usually 2 days, so probably had a lot left in reserve.
Nice pics... man I wish I was there. The ones near the como jetty are very familiar to me as they are part of my local runs.
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