Done with my first 1/2!! woo hooo!!!! My time was 1:32:48. (7:05 avg. pace) I feel so good that I did this and beat the goal I had set! If you would have told me a year ago I would be running a half marathon I would have laughed at you. I'm so glad I set this goal and stayed to it and got it done. I really like running now, thats something I couldn't say right at first.
I think I'm going to be kissing another toe-nail goodbye after this race.
I felt good and had a lot of energy. Right around mile 8 my toes started to hurt (they were bleeding), but I pushed through that. I really didn't start to run out of steam until about mile 11. Then i had to start mentally pushing myself to go on. When I got to the last 1/2 mile I picked up the pace again and passed up quite a few people. And then when I saw what I thought was the finish line I started to sprint. Much to my dismay we still had to loop around and run on the grass to the finish line.
Everyone had on I-pods/headphones -- I thought we couldn't have them! I think I would have run faster had I had some music! On another note - I'm so glad my knee started feeling better. It felt better today - No problem at all. Thanks for all the advice and for the prayer Lily.☺ | 