“That’s when I started to feel helpless,” Armstrong said afterward, while being driven back to his hotel opposite Central Park. “I thought: Uh-oh, maybe I should have trained a little harder for this. I think I’m in trouble.”
I think that EVERY year, Lance. I will never win 7 Tours de France, but I can tell you this: I have run five more marathons than Lance Armstrong. 
Seriously, though, congratulations are in order…. Welcome to the club, Lance! Sub three hour marathons are nearly superhuman feats of endurance. Hell, yes.
I just did the math. Yeah, that’s sub-7-minute miles, approximately 6:55/mile. For 26-point-two. Damn.
And the guy is doing it on whatever the cardiovascular equivalent is to muscle memory: just go stress the hell out of your body, and it’s done it so many times, it will know how to react.