Hello family and friends
The Dallas White Rock Marathon was quite an experience and it's taken me almost a year to get around to this one! I'm a year behind in my blogs so I've got a lot to write and YouTube about in the next few weeks!! I had registered and had this marathon planned with friends 7 months in advance so was I ready to run this marathon? Yes I was but I was not ready for the drive down to Dallas because I had not driven that many miles by myself ever and heard some terrible stuff about the Dallas traffic!! I had not been to Dallas since July 1980 when me and my relatives took a trip to Ft. Lauderdale, Fl where my brother Darrell Turner lived back then!! So I was so scared to death of this drive I took off for Dallas 5:00am that Saturday before the marathon to beat the traffic. And to make matters worse I didn't know my way around Dallas and wasn't sure the maps I googled was actually going to help.
I managed to get there and find the Dallas Fair park marathon expo really surprised the a heck out of me and met up with my running buddies as I was at the marathon expo for 6 drooling hours. Yeah, I know don't ask me why I did that because i still don't know.
After I left the marathon expo to go to hotel I got completely lost for 5 hours and almost was in a car accident. I had to turn off on the side of the rode and do some serious praying because I wasn't sure was going to be healthy and rested enough to run that marathon the next day after all that driving. I missed my friends pasta marathon dinner so I was a little weak. But on a good note I managed to find the hotel when I called them and they directed me. Thank God for cell phones but mine didn't have a GPS on it at the time.
When I got to the hotel I was glad to see my friends and really didn't want to do anything but go to bed and rest because i wasn't interested in the OU vs OSU game that was on at the time! A friend ask me to watch it with her but she didn't understand I had been lost in the Dallas metro for 5 hours and almost in an accident. I was a very tired man looking for sleep!!
The Dallas marathon was like no other and the people down there was really friendly to Okies, I was really surprised. During the 26.2 miles that I ran the spectators and fans really cheered us on and I got Hi5's!! Even tho it rained like it did in the OKCM marathon 6 months earlier it wasn't nearly as bad as that race!! If you ran both races and only did the half marathon at Okc 2011 and your trying to compare the 2 your only foolin yourself because that was the warm part of the race. I Pr'd in this race with a time of 5 hours 10 mins 23 sec until I broke that time at Prairie Fire marathon last month by 12 minutes. Wouldn't mind running this one in the future again but don't have any plans, who knows!! I actually enjoyed my marathon trip to Dallas as it was my first trip back to Dallas in 31 years. It's a great marathon and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to run it I had a blast while I was there. Enjoyed my first and only trip to the Cotton Bowl.
Thank you friends and fans for reading, love u all and keep the faith
Keep a watch for my YouTube blog and God bless!!
Ralph Breckenridge Jr
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
2012 Oklahoma City Memorial Memorial Marathon (A Run to Remember)
Hello friends
The 2012 Okc Memorial Marathon was my 7th time being involved in the event that has touched so many lives and remember the 168 people who were killed April 19, 1995. In 2005 of the event did the Memorial 5k run/walk which was in it's first year and I hadn't ran any race longer than a 5k at that time!! Since then I've ran 4 half marathons and 2 full marathons just for the Oklahoma City Memorial marathon, running in memory of friend Randy Guzman, the marine killed on the 6th floor.
I've been a member of the Okc running club since July 1, 2004 who I trained with and met some great everlasting friendships. If you ever need someone to run with this is a great group. In my training leading up the 2012 Oklahoma City memorial marathon I ran Little Rock marathon on March 4, 2012 and A2A marathon of Ardmore on April 1, 2012 in an attempt to become a Marathon Maniac by running in 3 marathons in 57 days which I became after running the Okc memorial marathon! Marathon Maniac is an online club website which has requirements for membership in certain amount of months or days you do marathons.
Okc memorial marathon had 25,000 runners this year, many spectators, and volunteers to make this race, one to remember! And starts with 168 seconds of silence for the 168 people killed in the bombing in April 19, 1995 and the National Anthem! I knew I was ready as usual for a race!! For most of the race I ran at a 10 minute per mile pace according to my Garmin watch and tried to keep it at the pace but like my other marathon race I lacked a marathon kick my last 6 miles of the race. My marathon time was 2 mins slower than last year running a time of 2 hours 27 minutes. I've since talked with a friend about that so I'll have closing speed for next race. Really enjoyed the race and spectators. It rain a little bit but this was nothing like I endured last year rain and hail!! And since I train in the evening heat after work that marathon day felt cool with misty rain. I take that over tornadoes any old day!!
Having been involved with my 7th memorial has very special meaning in my heart and as long as I'm living will always run this race!! Even if I have to use a wheelchair, the challenge is there. Looking forward to next year. Thank u all for reading.
God bless
Ralph Breckenridge jr
The 2012 Okc Memorial Marathon was my 7th time being involved in the event that has touched so many lives and remember the 168 people who were killed April 19, 1995. In 2005 of the event did the Memorial 5k run/walk which was in it's first year and I hadn't ran any race longer than a 5k at that time!! Since then I've ran 4 half marathons and 2 full marathons just for the Oklahoma City Memorial marathon, running in memory of friend Randy Guzman, the marine killed on the 6th floor.
I've been a member of the Okc running club since July 1, 2004 who I trained with and met some great everlasting friendships. If you ever need someone to run with this is a great group. In my training leading up the 2012 Oklahoma City memorial marathon I ran Little Rock marathon on March 4, 2012 and A2A marathon of Ardmore on April 1, 2012 in an attempt to become a Marathon Maniac by running in 3 marathons in 57 days which I became after running the Okc memorial marathon! Marathon Maniac is an online club website which has requirements for membership in certain amount of months or days you do marathons.
Okc memorial marathon had 25,000 runners this year, many spectators, and volunteers to make this race, one to remember! And starts with 168 seconds of silence for the 168 people killed in the bombing in April 19, 1995 and the National Anthem! I knew I was ready as usual for a race!! For most of the race I ran at a 10 minute per mile pace according to my Garmin watch and tried to keep it at the pace but like my other marathon race I lacked a marathon kick my last 6 miles of the race. My marathon time was 2 mins slower than last year running a time of 2 hours 27 minutes. I've since talked with a friend about that so I'll have closing speed for next race. Really enjoyed the race and spectators. It rain a little bit but this was nothing like I endured last year rain and hail!! And since I train in the evening heat after work that marathon day felt cool with misty rain. I take that over tornadoes any old day!!
Having been involved with my 7th memorial has very special meaning in my heart and as long as I'm living will always run this race!! Even if I have to use a wheelchair, the challenge is there. Looking forward to next year. Thank u all for reading.
God bless
Ralph Breckenridge jr
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