Last Saturday I "raced" in the Hobblecreek Half Marathon. This is a hard race to get in since it sells out in about 2 hours and they only let approximately 1500 people run it. You might ask... well, what's the difference between "racing" and just "running" it? Well, the difference is that I trained a little more intensely. All summer I increased my weekly mileage and put in more speed workouts and faster paced training runs with the hope to run the race faster and better! Thus, I was actually somewhat competitive this time and ran some of the race with the "fast girls." My goal was to get a personal best time and to finish in the top 100 women.
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| Coming up the last 1/4 mile. I haven't pushed myself like this in a VERY long time. I am so ready to be done at this point (I'm in the green top in the distance). Dave brought the kids to cheer me on. I really needed that! |
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| Feet burning, legs burning, shoulders burning.... Am I done yet? Don't look at Dave because I might just stop right here to hug my kids and lose valuable time. |
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| Just crossed the finished line. I'm so exhausted I can't even hold my head up! Still can't look at Dave because well, I might fall over. |
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| My cool "finisher" shirt with my cute little cheering squad. I'm feeling much better at this point. |
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| My brother Jay (not in pic), my sister Lisa and good friend Susie ran the race as well. I was so proud of all of them. Lisa got a personal best of 1:51 after getting zero sleep the night before and Susie ran a 1:58 which is absolutely incredible since she just had a BABY two and a half months ago! Such awesome ladies I'm surrounded by. |
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| All the pain was worth it in the end... I got my goal time of 1:41 (my all-time personal best is 1:40 back when I was young and single, so I just missed getting a new personal best time. Dang!) But I finished 80th overall among the women. The top 100 men/women finishers got this cool "elite 100" medal/necklace. I don't think I'll ever wear it again, but at least it's cool to have and remind me about the price we pay for competition. Right? |
5 comments:
Like I said before...You are My HERO! I want to be fast like you someday...someday. Will you train me :)
Wow, Heather. Good job!! Your time was crazy fast! A can't even run 1 mile in under 8 minutes, let alone 13 in a row!!!
Dang! Like Brittany and like I've said a bagillion times before...you're my hero! I'll be lucky to get an 11 minute mile average when I do my half. You are awesome!!!!
You are one crazy mama!
Awesome, Heather--and David, who watches children while you run. :-)
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