I did it!

I have been training for a half marathon but haven't really trained for it the last couple of weeks. I thought backpacking and other exercises would help well it sort of did but not really. I ran a half marathon this morning. It was up in Mckinleyville on the Hammond Trail and up to Little River, wow 6.55 miles was a long way and doing the full 13.1 miles looked impossible. I wanted to prove to myself I could do it. The race started off fine and at mile 3 I felt really good maybe because it was down hill and then by mile 5 I was like where is the turn around. I had some goo at 6.55 miles and told myself not to stop. My hips were really starting to hurt but I kept going. At mile 9 it was time to start going up hill which was not cool. Then I saw the turn around for the 5K and I knew I was close. One mile to go and my knees where hurting so bad I had to really slow down, thought I was going to have to stop. I was so close so I just kept going, my knees never felt that way before, it sucked! I finished with a time of 2:20:44....not bad for my first halfer. I wanted to finish under 2:30. Afterwards I downed tons of water, watermelon, and got a sandwich. After the race I told race officials that I don't think I will ever do another halfer but now I might. Still unsure might have to see how I felt tomorrow. I did see an old friend of Brandi and Lacey's....Olivia Hand. She told me she is a lifer up in Humboldt County. Maybe I will see her again in the future at another race. By the way Scott and the girls didn't make it to this race. Wish they would have been there, next time!

I know I look happy, I was it was the end

At least I finished