IMHO I would say you should have a time of 1 hour and 40 min. or less for a marathon (26.2) to be considered good, having trained at all for the event.
I agreed with your recap the Apostle Marathon was a great skate and fun time beautiful scenery to boot. but if you didn"t check out the Big Top Chautauqa by Bayfield and hear the Fiddlehead Band and Mountian Heart you missed a bluegrass experience t…
It's been about a year now and I myself still have pain when I try to push my left hand back, it has been getting well very slowly, but it's getting well. I find that massage really helps and to just keep working with it. I could not push my hand back at all when I first started to work with it. I hear it take's a very long time to get it moving again. I can now bend it at about 90% with pain, about 85% without pain. I'm just starting to get over the fear of falling on my skate's and I am getting much better at stopping. lol I hope your wife get's better soon. :P
Yes, I did require surgery. I now have one plate and 7 screws in my left arm. Also I broke it about 2 mo.s after I started indoor speed skating, I was starting to skate faster at the time and did not know how to stop very well. I hit my arm on a bar going off the skating floor and then held onto the bar. I pulled both bones out of place and had 4 fractures of the radius. :(
lol Thats funny! I started to skate about 2 weeks before I should have myself. It was so hard to sit back and see everyone having a good time, I just had to get up and skate. :)