I have never actually blogged on this website, but Sasha is encouraging me to give it a try. So here goes...today was my first half-marathon ever, infact I have never ran over 10 miles and never raced over a 10K. It ended up turning out great, kind of surprising to me...I thought I would die at mile 10. I should also preface this with my training mileage, it is 40 miles/week, 90% of that done on a treadmill...did I mention I have 3 kids?
Anyways, left my house at 5 am, caught my bus at 5:30. The race started 30 minutes late, which since I was one of the first busses up meant I stood up at the top for 1 1/2 hours. But none the less, the race did start and off I went.
First mile: 5:20...not as fast as I thought I would be but it felt easy
Mile 2: 5:20 again...still not as fast as I wanted, but I was almost waiting for another female to come up and pace with me. No one did, so I decided that I just should go for it and that I did.
Mile 3-6: Don't know my exact splits, I knew them in the race and knew that I had picked it up, but can't remember them now.
10K: 33:58...I remember thinking "I still have 7 miles, oh crap, what if I can't keep this up?"
Miles 6-10: No exact splits, but alot of 5:40's
Mile 11: no split but my time on my watch was dead on 1 hour...I was super excited because I hadn't died yet and knew I could get really close to 1:12...kept pushing
Mile 12: still pushing but calves are feeling tight, trying to stride out as best as possible...see the sign that says "you have one mile left" and my watch said 1:07:15...so then I must have ran a 5:58 last mile. It was fun to hear my husband and kids yelling along with my parents...I could see the clock at this point and happy to be finishing in the 1:12's. Chip time: 1:12:13
Not the best race report I know...I should have saved my splits on my watch or something. I do know that I am happy with my performance today and thrilled that it wasn't near as bad as I was sure it would be.
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