June 19, 2010 I ran my 1st half marathon. Some great friends encouraged me and together we trained for 10 weeks. It was so rewarding and challenging.
Within week 3 of training Terra said that we should set goals. Her goal was to finish it running and challenged Lindsay and I to do the same. We laughed at her!!! It's amazing that 7 weeks later it was more of a reality to run it than a dream. I had a somewhat set goal of 2 hours 10 minutes. I think that I could of made my goal if I hadn't made some rookie mistakes. 1) I didn't take care of a blister that came on a couple weeks prior. During the race I thought for sure it was bleeding because I was in horrible pain by mile 10. 2) We didn't train for huge hills and trails. That was huge in this race! There was about a 1.5 miles where it was on a trail. And it was muddy, and had pot holes and rocks. I was scared the whole time I was going to twist my ankle. 3) We planned to start at the very back of the marathon because we didn't want to get caught up in the foot race at the beginning and get tired. That was a huge mistake! It literally took us a couple of miles to weave through walker, strollers, and people who had a slower pace than us.
So happy to be finished.
Most supportive husband ever!!! He didn't complain (too much) with how much I would be gone running at nights. (We usually started our runs between 8-10 at night. It's light outside so why not.)
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Jess, your awesome! I have been wanting to run a half, but I've and Jake has been to busy to even take the time for me to prepare for it. Maybe you should come run one in Oregon with me?!
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