At least I made it this far

I was thinking to myself, what was the point now, I may have to walk the rest of this race. But still I am going to finish it and I will have to use up energy to do that. At least I made it this far.

Finally

Finally up ahead I see Eddie waiting with the bag that had the Carbs for me to load up on.

The End?

I could'nt believe that it was going to end like this and what was worse is that I could not see Eddie yet. I thought that I had missed him for the second time because I zoomed through mile 10.

Kiss a 3:30 Goodbye!

I had a 2:48 at mile 20 and my plan was to make a 3:30. Here I realized that I had to kiss that goodbye. So I was upset at myself.

I caught the attention of the paramedics right away. Three of them checked it out. They didn't want to pop it because of liability reasons so they gave me a needle. It didn't work, so I took a safety pin from my Bib and popped it myself. It was not a pretty sight, I actually made these guys flinch. Anyway they bandaged me up and here I am walking away from that.

Mile 20

Here I am reaching Mile 20. I noticed something was wrong with my left foot. Since I didn't see my friend Eddie yet, I decided to pull over and check my foot on the curb only to discover a blister that took up a quarter size of my foot.

LA Marathon 2009

This is about my experience at the 2009 L.A. Marathon. It is dedicated to my friend, Bass Instructor and Coach Eddie Resto that helped me train for a year to prepare for it and that was there at mile 10 and mile 20 to aid me with a bag that contained Carbs for me to load up on and to change shoes and sox and anything else. He also took most of the pics.