As promised in my previous blog post, I would upload some more pictures from Kona. 

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The 40th running of the New York City Marathon was on November 6th. The week leading up to the race was filled with fun events, like the 5km run with Shalane Flanagan sponsored by Jack Rabbit / New York Running Company. My training partner, David and I, went for an easy run along Central Park’s bridle path the Thursday before the marathon and found ourselves spotting pro athletes everywhere!

Pacing the marathon was super fun, especially when I get to see so many familiar faces along the route! Coming off a hard training week cycle, I was 95% sure that I could hold the pace (7:10 min/ mile), but also knew that I might put myself in the hurt locker. Luckily, I ran with a Ryan P, my co-pacer from Fort Collins, Colorado. Even though we both had to run the complete 26.2 miles each, having Ryan by my side was half the battle. Our goal was to hit 3:09:30, and my official time was 3:09:27, with a 29 second negative split from the half-way point. Mission accomplished!

Here’s a bonus gallery of NYC Marathon photos.

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And thus, we are now finally here – Thanksgiving week and more importantly, RACE WEEK for IRONMAN Cozumel [Mexico].

Let’s see what I can achieve in my final race of 2016.

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