#10 Fresno 2 cities Marathon

Marathon number 10 was special.

This race marks end of season 2017 for team asha that I coach so I got the privilege of accompanying runners for their first ever marathon.

There is a certain charm in seeing someone train half the year, missing friday parties, showing up for saturday morning runs, for tuesday tracks week after week and all of that culminates with the marathon week.

All the runners had butterflies in their stomach, and phantom pains from all over were popping up and so were the million of questions about pacing, course, what to do with this and what to do with that -- all fun stuff!

The course has two half marathons, one through beautiful trails of clovis and the other half within Fresno. City shows up to cheer runners and race was overall well managed. It's their 10th anniversary and I expect them to increase runners as they go along (especially with Clovis 1/2 marathon which is very scenic and lets runners go through some tunnels in the first 8 miles).

Glad to see that all runners finished strong (despite the heat and hills we saw between 16-24 miles). Usual start/finish line pictures for your pleasure attached.

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