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Portland Marathon Pictures and Talking About Marathons

By Colleen @colleenalicia · On October 24, 2010

I got an e-mail this morning, notifying me that my marathon photos are available online. My mom strongly encouraged me to buy some of them, but one 5×7 photo costs. $16.99. If I’m going to be putting down that kind of money for one picture, I might as well get the Champion Plaque for $69.99!

My pictures aren’t that great anyway. A couple of them are decent, but there are a bunch of me at the finish line where it looks like I’m very close to falling over. That’s because I was. Next time I do a marathon I’ll be sure to look less like I’m about to collapse when I finish so I can get some good pictures.


I’m not supposed to copy pictures from the picture-buying website, but I did just for you: my heroic finish-line picture!

I’ve not had a lot to talk about since doing the marathon, since I’ve done absolutely no running whatsoever since then. Sometimes I run Pascal on the way to his pooping spot because it helps him poop faster, but some people complain when I talk about Pascal and his poop. Here’s a picture of Pascal running, to help you visualize:


The good news is that after about a week of significant pain from my tendinitis, I’ve had another week or so of pain-free walking. For a while my leg hurt really bad when I was doing absolutely nothing. This is what happens when you run a marathon with an injury and very little training.

Usually I hate being injured so much, but right now I’m tolerating it pretty well. I finally don’t have to deal with the stress of having an upcoming race I don’t know if I should/can do, so I can just let myself recover for a while. I’m going to lay low on the running front for at least a month so I can fully recover this time, and then I’ll pick something new to train for. In the meantime I’m going to try to do the complete two month Insanity program. If I take before and after pictures and submit them to the Insanity people, I get a free t-shirt!

While I haven’t been running much, people keep asking me about my marathon, so I’ve been talking about running a lot. I’ve discovered that people are far more interested in hearing about how you ran a marathon they know about than one they don’t. When I ran Timberline, conversations would go like this:

Them: You ran a marathon? The Portland Marathon?
Me: No, I did the Timberline Marathon, up around Timothy Lake.
Them: I’ve never heard of that one. Goodbye.

This time around, things go more like this:

Them: You ran a marathon? The Portland Marathon?
Me: Yes.
Them: OMG blah blah blah my mom ran that one! Blah blah blah how’d you do blah blah that sounds so hard blah blah blah more talking.

I don’t have a problem with this. We all like talking about things we know about more than things we don’t know about. And I like talking/hearing about running, so I’m more than happy to listen to someone go on about their mom’s marathon she did twenty years ago.

Anyway, here’s one more picture of my dog:

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Colleen

I must confess, I started running at a very early age. Sadly, my runs were unblogumented until around age 23, so you'll have to use your imagination for all the runs I went on before that. Running has always been my go-to sport, but sadly, I spend a good amount of my time with chronic injuries. I have learned to entertain myself athletically with other pursuits such as kettlebell, yoga, and bikini competitions, when I can't run. In addition to my unique talent for working out and then blogging about it, I am an amateur puppy stylist and photographer, television enthusiast, and I'm usually CPR/AED certified, but I would still prefer if you didn't pass out when we're together.

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6 Comments

  • Kathayoon says: October 24, 2010 at 5:42 pm

    you and my dad would get along great. there’s nothing he likes talking about more than marathons and running. yesterday on the phone we talked about running for over an hour, and neither of us are even doing any running these days at all.

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  • Chris says: October 24, 2010 at 6:02 pm

    omg that picture of you dying at the finish line is so epic

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  • Erica says: October 24, 2010 at 8:23 pm

    i think it is totally worth 20 bucks to get that picture of you at the finish line. I will chip in $1.

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  • Vincent Rupp says: October 25, 2010 at 11:33 pm

    In all fairness, the Timberline Marathon was held in Narnia with Ewok volunteers and you spent the entire time chasing the golden snitch.

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  • Will says: October 27, 2010 at 12:11 am

    Your finish picture looks kind of like a starting picture the way you are looking down. I wonder if Pascal could handle a marathon.

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  • haylie says: November 3, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    I, too, love the finishing picture. Also Pascal.

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    I’m Colleen. I started this blog when I was 23 years old and training for my first marathon. I was single, semi-employed, generally directionless in life, and had a lot of free time on my hands. I have a lot less free time now, but I still love to come here and dump my rambling, unedited thoughts after a workout or race once in a while.

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