#SaturdayStoryTime - Marathon POV (1/2)
The marathon row is the most asked about event I’ve ever done. I’ve thought about it lots, so here’s a breakdown from my perspective.
Its 2018. It was the fourth event of day 1. It was a big day. 3 events down, 3 hours to go… is there even any point in warming up?
I’m the warm up area it seems like not really. Most everyone’s warm up consisted of applying astro glide, squeezing out every bit of pee possible and putting on some combination of tape, grips and gloves.
We has some heads up about this event and were told we’d be allowed to bring one basket worth of supplies onto the floor. I loaded mine with water, some liquid carbs and a tub full of marathon gels and gummy bears. I noticed a few poor souls with tragically empty baskets. Bad idea.
On the floor anticipation was high, too high. On the countdown to start our 3 hour workout someone jumped the gun and false started which messed up the system and they had to take 5 minutes to reset. Like th...