Portland Marathon Results

Any marathon you finish is a good one. Any day when we have a 100-percent finish rate is a great one, and today was one of those.

Special praise to the Welkers, Jeanette and Joy, for their big PRs. And to Michele Clemo for finishing her first marathon. And to Leah Kirkland for running her first with us. Michele and Leah are numbers 301 and 302 in our all-time count of marathoners.

Thanks to Richard Maher and Neal Benson for finding me a spot at the finish line. And to Audrey Blankenship for sharing a spot for the early miles.

PORTLAND MARATHON RESULTS

(with official time and per-mile pace; * = faster than last long training run)

Michele -- 5:58:03 (13:40 pace) debut at longest distance ever
Jean -- 5:13:39 (11:59s) 10th anniversary as a marathoner, where it all began
*Chris -- 6:01:35 (13:49s) 10th anniversary at Portland
*Leah -- 4:37:12 (10:35s) first marathon with our team
Cindy -- 5:13:43 (11:59s) finished despite illness
*Jeanette -- 4:29:09 (10:17s) PR by 20 minutes!
Joy -- 4:07:10 (9:27s) PR by 9 minutes!
*Rhonda -- 5:05:21 (11:40s) 3rd marathon or longer in 2 months

Others with team ties:

Rashi Arora -- 3:53 (8:53s) at Twin Cities; PR by 15 minutes!; trained "virtually" with us
David Blankenship -- 4:58:42 (11:25s) recent team alum
Amy Goddard -- 4:50:34 (11:06s) training with EWEB Half with us
Jennifer Howard -- 3:37:45 (8:19s) ran with Wednesday speed group
Jenn Lewis -- 3:37:45 (8:19s) from Eugene Running Company
Jeanine Miller -- 5:46:48 (13:15s) recent team alum
Trevor Steele -- 4:15:11 (9:45s) ran with Wednesday speed group
Duke Wang -- 5:15:28 (12:02s) trained some with us

WEEK 19 LESSON: YOUR NEXT

Question: How soon can I run my next marathon after finishing this one

Answer: How does six months later sound? You could run another one much sooner (as soon as a month later, according to the usual recovery timetable). But two marathons per year is a reasonable limit, which is why I schedule only two annual rounds of training for our team. This leaves half the year free to do something other than train for and recover from marathons. Spring and fall are the best times to run this distance because our weather is most reliably cool and dry then. Though we target races in those seasons, it also means doing most of the training in wet Oregon winters and warm summers. If you want to run races in those seasons, keep them shorter.