Bucket List Item- Half Marathon- CHECK

THAT was HARD!!!!!!!!!! OMG y'all I almost didnt make it through!! Many thanks to Jenn for keeping me in the race. She kept a great pace and gave me just enough appropriately timed pep talks and dirty looks to not allow me to allow myself to give up. I seriously could not have done it without her. Some more thanks to Doug (my trainer) for getting me ready for this event. And Super Special THanks to Marc and the kids for being at the finish line to cheer me on. LOL does it sound like I'm at the Oscars??

I won't bore you with the mile by mile mental recap because afterall it was 13.1 miles and you don't have all day to read my blog but suffice it to say IT WAS HARD! Mentally, physically and whatever other "allys" apply. I will so do this again. Next time I will train more outside and I will have an actual time goal that I would like to acheive/beat. My goal this time was to finish, and run the whole thing. CHECK.

My official net time (from when I crossed the starting line) was 2 hrs 7 mins and 17 seconds. Not too shabby for a first timer. I came 1831 out of 4074 total people and 657 out of 1950 females. Yep, my shoulder hurts from patting myself on the back.

Without further ado, a pictorial recap:

The carbs I had Saturday night, which is, no lie the reason why I signed up for this race. There is something about the promise of a blissfull night of unlimited guilt free carbs that will make a woman do really crazy things:


Here's Annette, Jenn and I right before the start:


Here's Jenn and I with our hard earned medals after the finish:


The best cheerleaders ever:

Need some luck and some positive vibes

Running my first 1/2 marathon this Sunday! That's 13.1 miles in case you didnt know.

Pray for me.

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Be back soon with an update. Till then I'll just be worrying :)