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Other than that how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?

A couple weeks ago in the INEOS159 "race" we found that with perfect conditions a person could indeed run a marathon under two hours. The question at PBT then became "what's your breaking 2:00?" Since I broke 5:30 and have had some great training (and a few decent races) this year it seemed like breaking 5:00 was possible. It is now my breaking 2:00. After my last long run I went public with it on my little triathlon FB group in a video. Lots of friends and family were tracking me for the Marine Corps Marathon yesterday. I was going into the race fairly confident and with strong expectations of breaking 5:00 or at least a HUGE PR. The weekend started out to plan. Friday went nearly to plan and Saturday was perfectly to plan. I even figured out that indeed I wasn't going to be able to use the local bus to get to a Metro station to get to the race Sunday morning and sucked it up and scheduled a Lyft even though I am not a fan. Before I went to bed on Sa