Kensington Marathon: The Journey
Having trained for months (actually almost a year) New Years Day 5K... training with a 20 lb backpack for the backpacking trek at Philmont, I decided that it was time to do a marathon. I had done 20 mile training hikes (both over two days). Backpacking on the North Manistee Trail We trained at 11,000 feet in Colorado Hiking in Colorado and then we hiked 100+ miles with a full backpack at Philmont. On the trail at Philmont I hemmed and hawed and waited until after returning from Philmont to sign up for the only fairly local marathon in July, the Kensington Marathon. It was a new marathon, run in Kensington Metro Park. It seemed perfect, just about 40 minutes away, in a park, two loops and two out and backs, so if I needed to I could cut the run short. And so I signed up. I continued training after Philmont, mainly walking lots of miles with Simon and my friend Elaine, who recently had knee surgery. Another runn...