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My penultimate and forth in the series took me to Sacramento for the California International Marathon

I had run Monumental 4 weeks earlier with Rick, but hadn't done much other than the Turkey Trot on thanksgiving -- that had left my knee sore

and 8 or so with John that now has my knee clicking and painful

Early flight to CA. Uber to PPU, where they had a nice Expo.

The Point to point from Folsom to the Captital caused me stress as I had to get to the finish at 4:45 for the bust to the start. I met a group in the hotel lobby and they gave me a ride.

7000 or so runners. Cool and Clear. We started at 7AM as the sun was coming up

Stuck to the 4 and 1, nice and show, once again starting up again at 30 seconds and ramping up slowly.

Knee was hurting from the get-go, but felt pretty good oterhwise running a 2:05 first half.

I kept a sweatshirt on until mile 12

Well managed race; Plenty of water/porta potties on the course. The only drag was was that the stations were always on the right side and too had to navigate too in the crowds...