And the follow-up:

My final official time for the Backroads: 2:12:23.

Woo-hoo!

Finished 835th out of 1332 overall, and 146th out of 268 women in my age group. There are some amazingly fast people who ran this race. Just for a sense of perspective:

Fastest female: 1:23:07. That's 13 6:20 miles. In a row.

Fastest male: 1:15:03. Not quite twice as fast as me, but darn close.

And the marathon winners: 2:54:04 fastest man; 3:13:49 fastest woman.

Kind of leaves me in awe of what human bodies can achieve, frankly.