Woke up at 5:30 to get ready for the marathon, after not a great nights sleep! I chose capri’s and our matching pink tops. If you have seen pics from any of my races you notice we tend to buy matching gear for the fun of it! Ate my usual bagel with peanut butter, banana, and Diet DP and headed to pick up Janine.
Got parked and downtown around 7am and the race was set to start at 8am. Took some picture and the time flew by until 8am.
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The race started and Janine and I left Jeanne and took off through Dallas. I had great hopes of taking pictures during the race but they all came out blurry so you will just get narration instead! Before we knew it we were at mile 5 and Janine and I commented how great we felt. We joked it was because we had a banana and peanut butter which we haven’t had for over 11 weeks with our diet. Around six Janine mentioned let’s put our headphones in because I was just not being my usual self. I really just enjoy watching everyone along the course. Around mile 8 we saw GiGi heading out as we were heading back in! There were lots of rolling hills but none that were killer and we had to walk up, unlike the Nike Women’s Marathon. We were keeping at a pretty consistent 10:30 ish pace. Mile 10 we hit the Katy trail and I was getting sore and tight all over, couldn’t be that I hadn’t ran a long run since Thanksgiving or anything. I had to stop and tie my shoe and I honestly thought my legs were about to buckle. At 10.5 I told Janine to go ahead of me because she was feeling better then me!
The entire time I tried to maintain anything fewer than 11 minute miles and to not let the 2:20 pacer man catch me. I sprinted the last .3 miles or so finishing at 2 hours, 19 minutes and 29 second. Janine and I went and got beer, which was a serious debate! Was a beer worth walking down all the American airlines stairs for, in the end we decided it was!
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To a few fellow runners out there:
- Barefoot man, why do you run barefoot the entire way, do your feet ever hurt?
- Speedo man, why do you choose to run in just a speedo, do you get all sorts of chaffing?
- All the Dad’s with babies out there, you seriously gave me Goosebumps from head to toe every time I saw the kids supporting their mommies!
2 comments:
Congrats! I can't believe you did it! Maybe someday ... HAH! You definitely made the right choice. Beer ... well worth the stairs!
You rock girl! Congratulations on another race. Loved the comments about the barefoot guy and speedo man. What in the world? You definitely deserved beer after that race, hell, after any race as far as I'm concerned! Keep on trucking!
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