HMRRC Winter Marathon Relay

I was (sort of) a part of a three person marathon relay today.
I ran with the person that was running the first leg of the marathon. The leg was 9.3 miles. The next leg was 5.7 and the final was 11.2 miles.
I ran along side of a very good athlete. I also coach with her. We ended up running our 9.3 mile leg in 63 minutes. We were shooting for 70 minutes, so it was a good day. I think, no offense to her, that if I continued to push through the finish line, I would have been around 61 minutes.
We are both coming off of an injury so we are still on the comeback trail.
I felt good after 40 minutes so I picked up the pace a little bit. At about 58 minutes, I slowed it down and hung back to wait for my running partner. We finished together and "handed-off" to the next relay leg.
As a team, the ladies finished as the third all female team overall. Not too shabby.
As far as the ankle is concerned, it felt pretty good. It's still painful to run on it, but I think it will continue to be painful until it's not painful (do you like that Yogi-ism?).
Next up, The Running of the Green in 2 weeks. It is a 4 mile race. My goal, about 24 minutes or so.
As far as feeling good about the Tupper Lake Tinman (half of an ironman) coming up in June, I'm still VERY optimistic about a good showing.
Until next time...