The Finish

According to my watch, I broke a 5:00/mile pace during the final stretch. This was easily the most emotional finish of a race I've run so far, and I have to admit, I may have shed a tear crossing the finish line.

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Similar to finishing the marathon, my legs gave up on moving as soon as I stopped running so the walk through the finisher's festival was rough. The Philadelphia pretzels were definitely a nice mood booster though and gave me the energy I needed to make it to the ACS tent.

ACS Finisher's Tent

Just like at the starting line, Team DetermiNation had their own tent at the finish line although this one was a little tougher to get to. I'm sure in reality it wasn't all that far from the finish but my legs were not happy about the walk. I met up with my mom at the tent who had been tracking me on course, she let me know that I'd clocked in an official time of 1:20:17, an average pace of 8:02.