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Picking back up from my first year of racing, I started racing 5 and 10k's on a regular basis. I would occasionally finish top 3 in my age group, but not often. Then I started thinking about doing a marathon. I decided to make the '06 Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon my first one. I started training with the OKC running club. Things were going pretty well until I decided to run 10 miles around Lake Hefner as fast as I could. About one mile from the finish, my right knee felt like it was on fire. I thought it was a cramp, and would go away in a day or two. No such luck. This is when I learned what ITB Syndrome was. After reading up on it, I decided to make sure I was over it, so I didn't run for a month. But I kept my fitness up by using an elliptical. I couldn't run the marathon, but I then decided to make the '06 Tulsa Route 66 Marathon my first one. My training went well, and I ran it in Nov. of '06. I was shooting for 4 hours and doing well until mile 21. I hit the wall and had to walk run from there. I finished around 4:14 chip, and wasn't too disappointed. In the next one or two posts, I'll finish with how I got to 5 marathons and 2 ultras. And what I'm training for now.
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