Fargo Marathon

I typed this up in May...at some point I thought I'd add to it...but there just isn't much else to say.

The Fargo Marathon was a week ago, and I am still collecting my thoughts.  The known fact is that I finished my 20th marathon in my 16th state with a 21 second personal record (PR).  The unknown that I am still pondering is how I felt about the Fargo Marathon. 

I have to say that this is the first marathon that I've run for which I cannot come up with words to describe how I felt about the race.  Perhaps it has something to do with the marathon being sandwiched in between 9 hour drives to and from Fargo?  Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that it was the third marathon I'd run in less than a month?  Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I had run a race every weekend from April 1 until the Fargo Marathon (consulting my calendar that is 8 weekends in a row)? 

Fargo is flat, fast, and friendly.  The spectator support is incredible.  The course is incredibly flat.  The race director is one of the quickest to respond to email questions that I have experienced.  I ran the 5K the night before and came home with a 5K finisher's medal, a marathon finisher's medal, and a Go Far Challenge medal.  Bling is always good.  The race shirts and the sackpack we received with registration are incredibly nice.   The course is just so....  so...  dull.   Unless a friend is running the 50 states, I just cannot recommend going out of the way to run this one.