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This was an easy run, to see if I could run.  I can, but not very fast.  It took me 27:17 for 2.59 miles and it wasn't low heart rate (147bpm).  On Monday, my oxygen level was at 91, where below 90 is considered a problem and 98 would be ideal.  Yesterday, it came up to 93, but still not where it ought to be.

My marathon goal has been 4 hours, but I might need to be satisfied with 5 hours tomorrow.

This is the sinus infection that won't go away, but none of the three doctors told me not to run the marathon, so I'm going to do it.

The best way to look at this, my second marathon is I finished and over 1600 people finished after me and I kept my time under five hours and the sickness didn't get me down.

It is a great course, other than the heat.  I hit the wall early.  At the mile 17 aid station, I walked through for three cups of water and then it was all I could do to start running again.  It was a slow jog most of the way in, but I did pass up someone in the finish line chute.  That was an exception.  For the most part, people were passing me from start to finish.  They passed me at the beginning because I was trying to conserve energy.  Miles 8 through 17 were some of my fastest miles and then it was the death crawl for nine miles.  Lots of mortuary signs along the way kept me going.

I appreciated the bands along the route.  They were great!

 I could tell when I looked bad because people started saying "Looking good, Stephen!"