If it weren't for a little play date in Herriman with some great friends one afternoon, I would have never dreamed of doing a 1/2 marathon!!!This is my running background: When I was at Ricks College, the gym teacher said that in order to pass the class, you had to run a mile by 15 minutes! I literally passed the finish line at 14:59! Barely passed the class!
Now rewind 12 years later. I have had 3 children, gained weight, and am in a totally different place than when I was in college! I ran 13.1 miles with a decent time-my minute per mile averaged 11 minute miles, and I did 13 miles-not just 1. Back then, I looked out for me...I had no kids! Now I have 3 huge responsibilities and acheived this milestone!
I was teary eyed a few times throughought the race. Out of nowhere, I started tearing up when a random group of people started cheering me on and saying I could do it! The next time was when I was coming to the finish line and saw my family and friends cheering me on!
Now, I am training for 2 more 1/2 marathons! In October, I will be doing the Park City Pink 1/2 with my awesome friend Manon who just had her baby. The second will be with some Herriman friends, my brother and my new South Weber friend in St. George, Sand Hollow 1/2!
Now you are probably wondering about the whole bloody shoe pictures! Well, I went to Wasatch Running Company a few times to make sure I got the right shoe. Well, throughout my training, I had major problems with blisters! On race day, I thought I would be okay since I had mole skin on my blisters, but NO!!! My feet were rubbing again creating the blisters to bleed and my toes were rubbing against each other creating even more blood! I noticed at mile 3 that I was bleeding, so I had to go 10 more miles with more and more blood on my shoe!!! I felt a huge sense of accomplishment though because I did not stop once during the race! I was pretty proud of myself!
4 comments:
I couldn't be MORE proud of you!!! We all did it...and seriously, why are we all running more? I love the runners bug that just sticks. If race day wasn't so GREAT than training would never be accomplished. I roped Jared into running a 1/2 with me this saturday in Logan. Here come's #2 for me on Saturday!!! Cheers to running!
Way to go! That is such a sense of accomplishment. Hopefully I'll see you at a few races now.
Good job. I'm impressed!! I'm also training for a half marathon that will be October with my siblings. Good luck with your other marathons. Hopefully I will make it to the finish line as well.
Way to go Andrea! I must say though that the picture of your bloody shoe is disguting! How did you make it through with all those blisters? Yuck.
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