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* '''Dead legs'''. My legs got weaker faster than I anticipated, especially my quads. There may be several reasons for this.
** My [[Practical Tapering| taper]] for the race was just a week, which is not long enough.
** I have not been doing as much [[Downhill Running| downhill training]] as I'd like. I'm planning on getting a [[Treadmill|treadmill ]] that will do decline so that I can get in the long steady downhill runs.
** I didn't take any [[Walking Breaks| walking breaks]] for the first 40 miles. I'm not sure if this is why my legs got so weak, but the lack of [[Walking Breaks]] did hurt my time.
* '''Radiation burns'''. The Graveyard course has little shade once the sun comes up, and I didn't think about sunburn until it was way too late. It's quite possible that the sunburn impacted my race, as sunburn has been shown to impact the ability to exercise in the [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1566925 heat] and the [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1566926 cold].