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Results are up! (Okay, so it's only the top 25. I'm sure they'll get the last people - uh, that'd be me - up soon!)

Official Race Pictures are UP!!!

Angie 1
Angie 2
Angie 3
Angie 4

I wanted to give a shout-out to Tommyboy, part of the Tucson contingent who managed to find my blog...thanks for the well-wishes! Good job on finishing your own first ultra! It looks like you are starting a blog...? I can't get to it though...

Note to self: I want to include my splits...but they are at home, and I'm at work.

Lap 1, Part 1: 1:11:35 approx. 5.3 miles, slightly up, then roller-coaster
Lap 1, Part 2: 1:07:13 approx. 4.8 miles, roller coaster

Lap 1, Part 3: 1:03:14 approx. 5.2 miles, downhill
Lap 2, Part 1: 1:26:00 same as lap 1
Lap 2, Part 2: 1:17:07 same as lap 1
Lap 2, Part 3: 1:17:05 same as lap 1

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----BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING----
Wow, it was so amazing. I still keep pinching myself. I really did it - I really ran an ultra-marathon. I really made my body keep moving for 7 hours, 22 minutes and 24 seconds. And I enjoyed it so much, found it to be so satisfying, that I want to do more. I want to run faster, longer. I want to get strong.

After reading my post, I realize I left out a few things. Here are those odds and ends (plus a sort of to-do list):

Here's the original race recap.

Here are the pictures.

Pre-race dinner at an Italian restaurant ended up sucking because they doused the pasta in so much olive oil, I couldn't eat it! I didn't want to keel over from a gallbladder attack. So I had them make some plain pasta that I mixed with on forkful of the loaded pasta and took it back to the hotel room...where we didn't have cutlery, oops. I used a cup to slurp it up.

I had absolutely no GI distress during the course of the race - none whatsoever! Wow! That was awesome.

I used Better than Ezra to get me through the race. I don't have an iPod, so it was my "internal iPod" singing a few different songs, mostly off the newest CD.

My average pace was 14:16 a mile. That's the quickest I've ever done a trail run! And it was my longest, wow!

I already know I want to do another one...I am eyeing the fall Soul Run. It's put on by a local bike shop - they have various distances for cyclists, including a 100-mile race, and they also have a 50k for runners. It's in the town of Oracle, which is just up the road, north of Tucson (also known as home to Biosphere 2). I'd get to train on the course, and it would be an easy trip. I think it's in October...so we'll see! I'm sure I'll be trying to get as many people as possible to come and do it with me!!!

I'm not too sore today...woo hoo. I am ready to begin my recovery.

Coming up soon...in honor of the awards season...my thank you post.

I'm also putting out a call for HELP! I want to have my own banner at the top of my blog, and I want to change my template and fiddle with it. I'm having issues doing that...can someone help me, pretty please???