I was asked a couple of days ago to run this, as they had a runner get hurt. It was a real low key thing and I mainly just had fun with it. I ran the second leg of the marathon relay, and each runner ran about 5.2 miles. Our first runner came in with a time just under 42 minutes. We were in 16th place after his leg, approximately 8.5 minutes out of first. I then took the baton and by the time I had finished my leg I was in first place and in the lead by 1:54 over the second place runner. The funniest thing is that I didn't even pass the guy in second until I had already passed the 4 mile mark. After that, our team promptly fell out of first. We finished 4th overall with a time of 3:13:XX. The winning time was about 2:56:00. I just thought that it was funny that I could have run the race alone and I could have won it by a considerable margin over the winning relay team. After the race I ran more to finish with 17 miles for the day. I was still sick when I ran the race this morning, and I think that I did surprisingly well considering that I wasn't feeling all that great.
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