Half Marathon today! woke up to some glorious cereal and me and my buds rode our way to george washington to ride the bus! No butterflies until we walked into the holiday inn and saw all the other runners. We realized that they might look intimidating with their fancy running clothes but they can actually afford it cause they work! we were wearing all free clothes and shoes our parents generously bought for us. :) Anyways, kinda chilly but so happy i wasn't wearing a jacket cause the weather was perfect after the first few miles! Nervous at first but as we ran through the canyon with coach it felt great and i was able to relax! Surprised myself by running with Rachel until the 6 mile mark. I was soo happy and i felt great! At the first hill around the mountain, both my feet fell asleep and i was ticked and it stayed that way until after i got over the second hill. So that bothered but going down hill i picked up my pace and i guess i ran off the numbness of my foot. I could tell my legs were getting really tired but i thought it'd hurt more if i stopped so i kept going! It zipped by super fast, espcially having my parents and the Peterson's driving by and cheering helped out! The hardest part was the last mile.. I just wanted to be done and it felt like this last mile was taking forever! Plus there was Godzilla behind me breathing like crazy so I picked it up more and when i saw the guys jogging i wanted to be done SO bad. Then fortunately coach appeared and ran the last 400 m or so and he helped a ton! I didn't notice how bad my form was starting to get until he told me to straighten up. It was hard to push the end but I was so happy to be done and get a good time. I wouldn't mind doing that again but maybe do a better job pacing myself. (overall place out of the girls..)
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