I finished!
Sorry it took so long to update, but I was recuperating.
We all finished! Josh ran his 5K and beat his personal record by almost 3 minutes, Brian (Josh's dad) ran his first half marathon and finished in less than 2 hours(!), Alex (Josh's brother) ran his first half marathon and finished in just over two hours (!) and I ran my first half marathon and finished in 2 hours and 26 minutes!
More about the whole day to come :-)
Showing posts with label Running. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Running. Show all posts
Monday, May 2, 2011
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
It's Official
I am registered for my first Half Marathon! EEK!
Here are the thoughts that are going through my brain:
Here are the thoughts that are going through my brain:
- I have run 11.5 miles at most so far. The race is 13.1. I can do that.
- The time clock officially stops after 3 hours and 15 minutes. I could walk the last 5 miles and still make it in that time. Phew.
- I really hope I don't twist an ankle or something. I don't want to be picked up by the loser bus.
- It feels weird to say that I will literally run from Ocean City to Assateague Island.
- It starts at the OC inlet and I will immediately cross this beautiful bridge:
- There is an enormous and very steep bridge at the end to get to the island. Now why would they put this bridge at the END of the half marathon?!?! To mock me? Maybe. Seriously. Look at this thing:
- But it will be worth it to say that I ran my first half marathon and it ended up here with these beautiful wild ponies:
- Here is the official map:
- Josh's dad and brother are registered for the half marathon. Josh is registered for the 5K that day in OC. Josh's mom is assigned to cheerleader/camerawoman/pick-me-up-from-the-hospital-girl in the case that I don't make it up that bridge.
- I have no interest in a full marathon. Ever.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
My Second Race
I ran yet another race! It was another 5K and was sponsored by my school's PTA. I beat my old time! My last time was 30:45 and yesterday my time was 29:54! That was my only goal!
Josh's parents came and Brian (dad-in-law), Josh, and I all ran the race. We all beat our old times. ANNNDDDD we all placed in our age ranges!
Overall, not a bad day! I also ran an 11.5 mile run today when Josh's parents left! And I ordered new running shoes that should come in this week sometime! YAY.
Josh's parents came and Brian (dad-in-law), Josh, and I all ran the race. We all beat our old times. ANNNDDDD we all placed in our age ranges!
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| Brian crossing the finish line |
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| ME! crossing the finish line |
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| Josh crossing the finish line |
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| Me getting my GOLD medal for placing 1st in my age range! (Women ages 20-29). It also turns out that I was the only runner in this group, but that's not important... |
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| The three of us with our medals. Josh got a silver medal and Brian received a gold medal! (It's also not important that he was the only one in his age range!). I am holding a basket with a coffee mug and a gift card to my favorite local, organic coffee shop that I won in a raffle :-) |
Monday, March 28, 2011
Wow Weekend!
Friday after school I went to the gym, got Chinese food with our PE teacher, and came home and watched basketball all night.
Saturday I woke up, ate breakfast, and immediately got ready to go to Barnes & Noble. They were hosting a book fair for my school and lots of our students were performing there throughout the day. I had about 80 kids there, which was an excellent turnout. The band, the orchestra, and various other classes performed as well. Josh videotaped it with our flipcam. I have not been able to figure out how to embed my flipcam videos on Blogger... can anyone help me with this?
Anyway, the performances went well. I got home, went grocery store shopping, and made tacos because we had company. The orchestra teacher at my school and her fiance came over Saturday for dinner. It is really nice to finally be making friends in this new city. It gives us stuff to do!
Then Sunday. Oh me oh my. I woke up, looked outside, and saw two inches of snow. Also, it was 35 degrees. What?!?! It's the end of March for goodness sake! Well, I promised myself a long run, so I did it anyway. I wore gloves, earwarmers, compression shorts, pants, large socks, a wintery tank top, a CoolMax shirt, and a long sleeved shirt. Yeah, the gloves were off within the first ten minutes.
When I walked outside and started running, I saw this and I had to take pictures with my phone:
I had to run through small patches of snow, which wasn't so bad. The worst part was that the snow was really heavy and wet... and it was windy. Every time I would run under a tree (and as you can see, there were lots of them) the wind would blow snow off the tree and it would conveniently land directly on my head or face. Yes, I'm serious. This happened many times.
In addition to that madness, I got lost. I use a site called mapmyrun.com, which allows you to plug in any route in your area and it will tell you your distance, your height climbed, etc. It's essentially an online GPS for runners. Here is the map of the run that I was supposed to do:
As you can see, I basically just needed to do that loop 3 times and I would have done 10.98 miles. It doesn't seem that difficult. Well, I turned on a road called Dogwood instead of a road called Woodland, got lost for about 20 minutes, turned on several roads trying to get myself back, eventually found something familiar and went with it. Well, when I got home, before I passed out, I mapped the run that I accidentally did (including the "*whoops* detour), and it added up to 11.02 miles, which is good. My time was not good, however. It took me a whopping two hours and five minutes. Ouch. But I am still proud of myself for running nonstop for two hours and five minutes. That is definitely something that I would not have been able to do at any time in my past! I am more confident than ever about the half marathon, too!
I literally spent the rest of the entire evening either in a hot bath, guzzling iced tea or water, eating, and reading in bed. It turned out to be a very relaxing Sunday :-)
Saturday I woke up, ate breakfast, and immediately got ready to go to Barnes & Noble. They were hosting a book fair for my school and lots of our students were performing there throughout the day. I had about 80 kids there, which was an excellent turnout. The band, the orchestra, and various other classes performed as well. Josh videotaped it with our flipcam. I have not been able to figure out how to embed my flipcam videos on Blogger... can anyone help me with this?
Anyway, the performances went well. I got home, went grocery store shopping, and made tacos because we had company. The orchestra teacher at my school and her fiance came over Saturday for dinner. It is really nice to finally be making friends in this new city. It gives us stuff to do!
Then Sunday. Oh me oh my. I woke up, looked outside, and saw two inches of snow. Also, it was 35 degrees. What?!?! It's the end of March for goodness sake! Well, I promised myself a long run, so I did it anyway. I wore gloves, earwarmers, compression shorts, pants, large socks, a wintery tank top, a CoolMax shirt, and a long sleeved shirt. Yeah, the gloves were off within the first ten minutes.
When I walked outside and started running, I saw this and I had to take pictures with my phone:
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| What a great way to start a run, huh?! It was beautiful and I had all the energy in the world! |
I had to run through small patches of snow, which wasn't so bad. The worst part was that the snow was really heavy and wet... and it was windy. Every time I would run under a tree (and as you can see, there were lots of them) the wind would blow snow off the tree and it would conveniently land directly on my head or face. Yes, I'm serious. This happened many times.
In addition to that madness, I got lost. I use a site called mapmyrun.com, which allows you to plug in any route in your area and it will tell you your distance, your height climbed, etc. It's essentially an online GPS for runners. Here is the map of the run that I was supposed to do:
28 ftStart Elev
59.0 ftMax Elev
89.0 ftGain
As you can see, I basically just needed to do that loop 3 times and I would have done 10.98 miles. It doesn't seem that difficult. Well, I turned on a road called Dogwood instead of a road called Woodland, got lost for about 20 minutes, turned on several roads trying to get myself back, eventually found something familiar and went with it. Well, when I got home, before I passed out, I mapped the run that I accidentally did (including the "*whoops* detour), and it added up to 11.02 miles, which is good. My time was not good, however. It took me a whopping two hours and five minutes. Ouch. But I am still proud of myself for running nonstop for two hours and five minutes. That is definitely something that I would not have been able to do at any time in my past! I am more confident than ever about the half marathon, too!
I literally spent the rest of the entire evening either in a hot bath, guzzling iced tea or water, eating, and reading in bed. It turned out to be a very relaxing Sunday :-)
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