Wow what a race. When I went into this race I was really nervous.
I had been running the treadmill and was not sure how I would run a race on the
road. But thanks to God and Kory I was able to run a good race. I have to thank God for helping me because
when I started He gave me some scripture that helped me to know that He was
going to help me and when by body started falling apart he help me to finish
the race. And Kory for going with me and
also helping to build my confidence and having someone there to talk to and
come up with a plan of how to run the race.
Also, the day of the race the weather really sucked and the wind was
just horrible, I think the wind was blowing at 20 mph with gust up to 25 mph. My
over all place was 200 out of 3819, and for my age I was 22 out of 199. Some of
my problems were that I needed to be more hill ready and I was not. So before my next race in May I plan on
running some hill. The next race will be in Ogden Utah May 17 and I am a little
excited to run.
1.
7:37
2.
7:22
3.
7:27
4.
6:54
5.
7:08
6.
7:25
7.
7:16
8.
7:19
9.
7:25
10.
8:04
11.
7:52
12.
8:18
13.
8:02
.15. 7:12
Now some fun stuff about the day before and the day of the
race. I did get to meet some really good runners like Sasha and Adam, thanks to
Kory for introducing me to them. But one
thing about Sasha is he really helped me on my running by giving me a running
plan during the winter which really helped be to get to this point of my
running, so thank you very much. One funny thing about the start of the race
was when they started the race I stood around for about three minutes and when I
finally got to the chip starter the song playing on my mp3 player was “who let the dogs out.” And after the race I was waiting to cheer
Kory, Adam and Sasha on I was really amazed by watching the winners of the
marathon coming in to the home stretch. Then I had a really good ride home and great
conversation with Kory. This was a very very fun weekend for me.
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