hydration

It may be the heat,  but I'm feeling tired a lot of the time. It's not the old serum ferritin issue, because the energy is there, it's just hiding.

Only 3 minutes 45 seconds kept me from celebrating a successful Boston Marathon qualifying race at the Whidbey Island Marathon, and, "only" celebrating my first successful marathon after 10 years of no races what-so-ever... I'm trying to focus on the positive... 3:23:45 - 1st marathon in ten years, PR by 16 minutes, Half-Marathon PR by 5 minutes, beautiful run, met and ran with Dean Karnazes for a couple miles, spent a wonderful weekend with the family. Yeah, the 3:45 isn't that big of a deal but MAN, it would have been nice...

Some things I learned along the way that most likely caused the breakdown...