i am just a dreamer wearing sensible shoes

13.1 miles in
2 hours
42 minutes
10 seconds

2038 calories burned

Average Heart Rate: 174
Max: 182

I was already at 150 before the canon even fired I was so ready to run!

According to my heart rate monitor, actual race results have not been posted yet. That's 12:36 minutes/mile. Off my pace BUT WHO CARES? I walked up a very short, steep hill about ... 15 yards. I walked two other moderate hills about 15 yards a piece. Other than that, I ran every step. I even checked on a couple of people who looked like they were injured [not hurt, just hurting] and thanked all the policemen for directing traffic and waved at all the cheerers.

It was supposed to start at 8:15. It was about 38 degrees, so I didn't run with my leg warmers, hat, or gloves. It didn't start until 8:45. I had already checked all my gear so I just about froze until we started. I had my mom drive me down and drop me off, she went off and Christmas shopped, then picked me up when it was finished. I wore my medal to CostCo! I think she was embarrassed. But I am not. I doubt I take the medal off all freaking day. Told mom I was gonna wear it every day for six months. Heh.

So we finally started. The first mile was awful. The second mile was a little better. We hit 3 miles and I was about 2 minutes off my pace [I never got that time back btw] by mile 3 it was no longer awful. I was warm, sweating a bit, in my groove and chilling with my playlist cleverly entitled RUN BITCH RUN. Mile 4 was amazing. Mile 5 was just as awesome. By mile six, I was like I'mma do me a marathon next. And then I hit mile 7 and the non-existent arch in my foot got a cramp. It was still there in mile 8 and I was getting frustrated. Then I hit mile 9 and that first hill hit me right as I was getting pissed off with the woman in front of me.

You see, her husband and child were riding a tandem bicycle beside her. They rode beside me for a while and I couldn't stand the feeling of them being that close to me. Then I wanted to pass and they were in the way. I finally slowed down in mile 12 enough for her to get ahead of me and get that damn bike out of my way. But I'm ahead of myself.

At a little over mile 10 [to make up for that short hill you know] I kept saying holy shit! This is the farthest I've ever gone before and I feel great and there's only a 5k left \o/ My foot started feeling better, though my tendinitis flared in my right knee right about the same time. So I still finished the race in pain BUT I finished!

And it was awesome! And that mile 12 - 13? TOOK A YEAR. It would have been as bad as mile 1 except I was flying from the runner's high.

AWESOME race schwag:

Dry-fit shirt, STICKER OMG, the entire reason I did this!, and medal, and some socks.



Medal up close. This race was a fund raiser for childhood obesity prevention programs in this area. There was a 1 mile walk/fun run as well as a 5k. There were around 2000 participants



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ETA

Official Results:
Placed 1055 out of 1107
Time: 2:41:35
Mile/Minute: 12:20

omg. with the bad run and then the illness, I will now be officially *under-trained* for the Half-Marathon 12/3

/o\

is panicking

and my back injury is tweaking at me. I've spent so much time on the couch getting over the crud my body is rebelling against me.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ION:

Remember back in season 2 when there was Tig/Gemma for about 15 seconds? This week brought that back to me, BIG TIME. Katy and Kim are just so visually *striking* when they're standing beside each other. guhguhguh