{"id":30475,"date":"2019-02-04T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T18:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=30475"},"modified":"2019-02-04T13:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T18:23:03","slug":"surf-city-marathon-2019-a-photo-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=30475","title":{"rendered":"Surf City Marathon 2019 – A Photo Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 1, 2019<\/strong>
\nA Friday. A 2 1\/2 hour drive down to Huntington Beach thanks to good ol’ SoCal traffic. On Sunday morning it would take me 55 minutes… admittedly, at 4 AM. But that’s proof positive that if we just had half the number of cars on the road we might actually be able to get places in California.<\/p>\n

The expo was the same as it ever was, hence my Groundhog Day<\/em> reference in the quick summary yesterday. I do always appreciate the balloon palm tree displays however.<\/p>\n

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Post expo, we had dinner with Kerry and Jean, two of my Table 44-mates from years past. Always good to see them — and this was the first time they got to meet my brother. So that was nice.<\/p>\n

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February 2, 2019<\/strong>
\nSaturday was monsoon season in Los Angeles, such that even the LA River flowed, a rare occasion indeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

February 3, 2019<\/strong>
\nAs for the race Sunday, the course was as it always has been — a run out on PCH into a neighborhood and park area, back to the PCH for a few miles, turn around and then a 10 mile out and back stretch on the beach bike path. It made for inexplicably unnoticeable tail winds for a few sections and debilitating head winds, especially in the final 5 miles back to the finish. I slowed tremendously in that back stretch, seeing my Boston Qualifying pacers blow past me as surely as the wind blew into my face. In the end, I was 5 minutes slower than last year… and thanks to the revised BQ standards, was about 10 minutes off a BQ time. Ah, well. Such is life.<\/p>\n

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At least the rain wasn’t omnipresent and torrential as had been forecasted. We ran toward it a few times and got a bit misted… and the hardy winds blew more than a few sea sprays onto us… but mostly it was a perfectly fine temperature\/weathercast… if not for those damn headwinds.<\/p>\n

LEAR
\nBlow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!
\nYou cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
\nTill you have drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks!
\nYou sulfurous and thought-executing fires,
\nVaunt-couriers of oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
\nSinge my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
\nSmite flat the thick rotundity o’ th’ world,
\nCrack nature\u2019s molds, all germens spill at once
\nThat make ingrateful man!<\/p>\n

Act III, scene ii<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As I mentioned yesterday, the highlight was assuredly grabbing lunch with everybody afterwards at Hawaiian styled Duke’s, a place I know well from Waikiki.<\/p>\n

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And thanks to Brent and Tamela, I know its Hula Pie dessert even better. We introduced this delight to Steve and Kerry and Jean… and I think it’s safe to say it was well received.<\/p>\n

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The major hiccup of the race came when I walked back to my car, where I had parked for $10 for all-day parking. It was 2 PM and everything was chained up.<\/p>\n

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After briefly considering climbing over the fence and pulling a Sweetwater exit, I opted to walk all the way around the perimeter where I did find somebody who told me if I walked the other way there was an exit still open for the cars.<\/p>\n

At least I wasn’t the last one to leave.<\/p>\n

I was the second to last.<\/p>\n

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