COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL MAY 2, 2018
M ARATHON
continued from B1
unbelievably wet.”
***
Growing up, Udosenata
didn’t play organized sports.
“In high school, I played the
viola and was a thespian and I
was very anti-anything athletic
at all,” she said. “And then in
college I lifted and did the stair
master to just look a certain way.
And then I loved backpacking.
So, I guess I was active-ish in
college. But I was not a sporty
person.”
With no real desire to start
now, Udosenata was convinced
by her boyfriend of the time
(and now husband Iton Udose-
nata) to compete in a duatholon
in Corvallis. The Heart of the
Valley Duathlon includes and
11-mile bike ride that is book-
ended by a pair of 5K runs. The
pair competed in the race and
Miriam Udosenata caught the
running bug.
“I really liked the running
part. And so we did the Butte
to Butte a couple months later.
I liked that, it’s a 10K. Then I
signed up for the EWEB Run
to Stay Warm a couple months
after that. Did the half marathon
and then I did the Eugene full
marathon fi ve months later,”
she said.
“I got really hooked.”
***
While the rain wasn’t going
anywhere, Udosenata was.
By mile four, the pack of peo-
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ple had spread thin enough and
she was hitting her goal pace.
And mile four meant it was time
to fuel up.
“My plan for fueling was
to take a gel every four miles.
And I stuck to it, and I just kept,
okay, four miles, time to take
another one,” said Udosenata.
“And then I just focus on get-
ting to that next four mile point
where I can take another one
just to, you know, mental games
you play to get through when
it’s tough like that.”
As the miles started to add up,
screaming spectators cheered
her on as she passed fellow rac-
ers.
“I mean, there were so many
fans out – just like normal – so
you feel like a rock star the en-
tire way.”
***
Suddenly running was every-
thing for Udosenata. She ran the
Portland Marathon where her
time of 3:40:32 got her under the
qualifying time of 3:45:00 (and
has since moved to 3:40:00) and
she punched her ticket to Bos-
ton in her second marathon ever.
“At that point I started get-
ting a lot of running friends and
getting really plugged into the
Eugene running community and
kind of found a whole new tribe
of people. And it’s just adult
peer pressure,” she said. “You
start running new marathons
and then the big goal is to quali-
fy for New York City Marathon
which is actually harder to qual-
ify for than Boston.”
She continued to run races,
post impressive times and qual-
ify and compete at bigger stag-
es including the New York City
Marathon in 2015. In 2016 she
put up personal records at each
distance but it was starting to be
too much.
“By the end of 2016 I was to-
tally burned out. And was just
like, I’m done,” she said.
Done – for the time being –
with racing. Not running.
“I still ran like 2,700 miles in
2017.”
Having qualifi ed for Boston
2018 with a 3:23:20 time at the
California International Mar-
athon, Udosenata decided this
was the year she went back for
the Boston Marathon.
***
As Udosenata rolled through
the miles, the notorious hills of
the marathon waited in the dis-
tance. Starting at mile 17, racers
encounter the Newton Hills that
crescendo at mile 20 with a half-
mile ascent to what is known as
Heartbreak Hill.
“At like mile 17, 18 I hear my
name and my husband had…
found me. And I saw him and
I knew we were coming up to
Heartbreak Hill – the Newton
Hills up to Heartbreak. And that
just kind of gave me a burst, like
okay, we’re almost there, we’re
almost there,” said Udosenata.
Having done extra hill train-
ing for this particular moment,
she began her climb and was
unfazed by the challenge.
“People don’t want to hear
this for the most part but really
I don’t think the Newton Hills
are that big of a deal. I thought
it the fi rst time, and I thought it
this time. They’re really not,”
she said.
“Butte to Butte’s hill is much
worse. I think the thing that is
hard about Heartbreak is you’re
20 miles in and that’s where
most people kind of start to hit
the wall if they don’t fuel right.”
Passing people the whole way
up, she was fi lled with a feeling
of pure ecstasy.
“Just kind of overcoming
waves of just being so happy
and feeling so lucky that I’m
able to participate in something
like this. Despite the weather,
despite whatever, you know. We
get to mile 23 and there’s one of
those complete atmospheric riv-
er dumps and I just woo-hooed
at the top of my lungs when it
started,” she said.
“What else can you even do?
Bring it on, weather, whatever.
And at that point I was able to
look at my watch and be like,
I’m getting a (personal record).
No matter what I do right now.”
***
To get ready for the Boston
Marathon, Udosenata prepared
in a number of ways. She fi ne-
tuned her lifting, found the right
balance of mileage and mapped
out possible race-day scenarios.
She also threw some “Gatorade
parties.”
A full-time PE teacher at
Bohemia Elementary School,
Udosenata involved her stu-
dents in her training for Boston.
Starting in January, one day a
week the students would run
laps around the track as part
of a class competition – that
earned them Gatorade – and to
see if they could run across the
country from Cottage Grove to
Boston.
“On the map there behind
A map at Bohemia Elementary School that tracked mileage from Cottage
Grove to Boston.
you, we kind of kept track of
that little paw print moving
across the country as the weeks
went by,” she said.
With the miles the classes
logged, and Udosenata’s train-
ing miles, they made their physi-
cal goal. But also, accomplished
other goals along the way.
“Just to watch some of my
hardest classes behaviorally
get so into it. Like push them-
selves… I would have marks on
their arms on Boston laps days
– it was the easiest way to mark
them – and they would be like,
‘I got 15 last time, I’m getting
16 this time,’” said Udosenata.
“Running is a great sport be-
cause you don’t need to be in
some sort of [socioeconomic
status] when you’re young-
er where your parent puts you
in some club soccer when you
were three. It’s like you need
some shoes and your own grit
and go for it.”
With her students into run-
ning, understanding what Bos-
ton is and having just met their
goal for miles run, Udosenata
left for Boston to compete in the
race.
***
Through rain and hills and
pain, Udosenata was met with
euphoria on the way to the fi n-
ish line.
“That’s kind of when the
magic of Boston that I felt last
time kind of hits. And it’s just
this, for me, it’s this emotional,
I kind of want to cry, I kind of
feel like choking and I just feel
so thankful to be there,” she
said.
“You’re chasing that feeling.
That doesn’t happen every sin-
gle time. But that’s what you
hope for and just luckily for
me, and not luckily I put in a lot
of hard work, but it happened
again.”
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Udosenata fi nished in a per-
sonal best time of 3:13:54.
As she crossed the fi nish line,
a new challenge set in.
“People were really hypother-
mic and we were kind of ush-
ered into this auditorium they
have for runners to warm up.
And people were just uncon-
trollable. And I was, too, at fi rst.
Almost delirious with cold that
I’ve never really felt before,”
she said.
Once she was able to get out
of her soaking wet race clothes,
she began to help her fellow
runners in need around her. She
explained how to get warm and
helped remove their shoes as
they were grateful and in shock.
“People were just like, ‘did
we really – did that really just
happen out there?’”
***
Less than two weeks after
Boston, Udosenata was at it
again with the marathon last
Sunday; this time running as a
pacer for the Eugene marathon.
She led the 3:25:00 group for
the fi rst 17 miles before she
handed off the group to a “run-
ning buddy” as she dealt with an
aching right hamstring for the
fi nal nine miles and fi nished in
a time of 3:45:25.
And after a pair of marathons,
now it is time to rest until she
decides what her goals are and
what she wants to achieve in
the coming year. There are mar-
athons across the country and
in Europe she has her eye on.
And maybe even the marathon
in Greece. And of course, Bos-
ton is on the list for a few years
down the line.
“Boston, I’m not going to do
it soon,” Udosenata said. “It’s
my special place.”
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