Over the past 10 weeks, I was supposed to be training for another half marathon. I successfully completed about 6 of those weeks, and got super busy with school, or just found other excuses not to keep my running going. I signed up for this half marathon about 2 and 1/2 months ago, and was very excited to do it (I'm not big into Halloween though, and therefore did not dress up). I ran with 500+ fellow runners; some dressed up, some did not, and had a really good run.
(Yes, I ran with Elvis; be jealous!)
I did start to feel my lack of training around mile 10, and had to do a bit of a 'feel better walk' to get myself going again. I finished in 2:30:37, which was about 18 minutes longer than my best half time, still under my goal for half assing my training.
The starting temperature at 10:00 a.m. when the race started was 30 degrees; or super cold. I am glad I dressed warm. When I crossed the finished line 13.1 miles and 2 and 1/2 hours later, it was 32 degrees! I was very appreciative of my gloves and cold running attire. I stayed warm throughout the race which was great.
It was awesome to see how many people turned out to run in October, and dressed up at that. It was a lot of fun, and I look forward to hopefully doing the marathon next year.
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