ING NEW YORK CITY MARATHON

November 2, 2003

Clint Wells

CLINT WELLS: Everything was going smooth for 10, 11 miles. Somewhere half marathon, my legs felt hard. They felt really pounded. I still managed to go through in 1:07 and some. So I was still on pace at halfway. Then I got to the 59th Street Bridge and that pretty much put me under.

CLINT WELLS: In some ways I was kind of confused as to how within a one-mile span -- I have never really had that happen before. Within a one-mile span I went from really smooth at 5:08 pace to almost instantly 7-minute pace. I bonked I guess you would call it. I ran out of fuel. I wasn't breathing hard at all. My cardiovascular was really doing really well the whole time. My legs just went out from under me, so at certain points in the race I was able to get them back and I could go, I can pick it back up again but it would only last for around 400 meters or so then it was back to 6, 7, I don't know what pace I was running.

CLINT WELLS: It's a very humbling experience. It makes me -- I mean, the conclusion I came to is that I don't think I really trained or prepared well enough for it. It definitely gives me some insight as to maybe how I am going to do stuff differently. I think I am going to have to wear different shoes as well because I started getting a bit of a blister on my right foot at about seven or eight miles, which I started limping slightly and then my left quad and hamstring started hurting mid-race. And then that also hampered my ability to go much faster because since I started to pick it up a little bit, my hamstring would start to cramp. So I had to slow it back down again. There was lots of things I learned definitely throughout this race. One of the most humbling experiences I have had. I am not sure even if I want to do another one right now.

CLINT WELLS: No, my goal coming into this was never really to qualify for the Olympic trials for the marathon. In the back of my mind, I just wanted to experiment with it for the future -- for maybe 2008. However, I have always wanted -- I still wanted to go back to the track and run the trials on the track and so I will not be doing another marathon probably until, you know, the fall of 2005, 2006, maybe Boston, I don't know. I don't even know, but it's going to be at least a year.

CLINT WELLS: Yeah, long sleep.