Hearn, a native of Sykesville, Maryland, 40 miles north of the nation's capital, knows the marathon course that starts at Arlington National Cemetery and snakes through the Capitol Mall and other districts before ending at the cemetery. When he ran his best time in Baltimore, Hearn said he worked through a cramp at mile nine and kicked into high gear at the halfway point, and then settling into a comfortable mental and physical zone where he stayed until he hit the tape as winner. The wildfires that raged in the southern California hills last week caused him to change his training runs and move his course further west. In March, he won the Shamrock Marathon in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with a time of 2:32 and has since altered his training regime to get even faster. "I know I can do a lot better this time than two years ago," Hearn said. He maintains his weight with a 3,000-calorie daily diet, including fruits and vegetables. ![]() His training has him peaking at his fastest time this weekend. He has spent the past few months running about 100 miles each week and following a nutritious diet to keep his 6-foot-3 frame at the 165-pound range that gives him the most strength to complete the hilly 26.2-mile course. "That's my best time," he said of the Baltimore win. The 27-year-old officer is from Maryland and was on the Navy team two years ago, and then won the Baltimore Marathon last year with a time of 2 hours, 26 minutes - the same time he wants to match this weekend, if everything he's been training for falls into place. ![]() Hearn, who lives in southern California, begins his pre-dawn runs in the hills of Orange County before commuting to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Corona Division, where he serves in the Performance Assessment Department as an analyst for the Navy's premiere independent assessment science and engineering command. He will be competing against 50,000 other runners and representing a very competitive 10-member U.S. Patrick Hearn may do pretty well in Sunday's 42nd Marine Corps Marathon, if home-court advantage works for marathoners.
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