I was ready to blow away last year's time because I've been training much longer than last time. My goal was to get under 8 minutes.
The race ended up not going as smoothly as I'd hoped. It was windier than I remembered, and there were twice as many people registered this year than last year, which meant a lot more weaving in and out. I even had 2 instances where I almost ran into/tripped over a kid. Despite the announcer reminding the participants 37 times to line up with runners in the front, joggers in the middle, and walkers in the back....there were still walkers in the front that the runners and joggers had to dodge. Sorry to sound pretentious, but it was annoying and dangerous.
Anyways....
I was a little too ambitious and started out too strong, and by the time I was 3/4 done, the following thoughts went through my mind:
- "It's windy out here, that kind of sucks"
- "Am I even half-way yet?"
- "Kid!"
- "I have to pee"
- "I'm tired"
- "This isn't as much fun as I remember"
- "Kid! Dammit, get out of my way!"
- "I have to pee"
- "How am I ever going to run a half marathon?"
- "I really have to pee"
- "Why don't I see the finish line, dammit?"
Congrats on finishing though, it wasn't an ideal running day since most of the course was a gradual climb uphill and there was a decent headwind most of the time. Plus walkers make for fun times when trying to avoid them. Plus think about all of the people who didn't run a mile yesterday.
ReplyDeleteHey at least you did it. More than we can say about a certain someone (guilty look). 8:30 is very respectable. And you can totally count on me running it with you next year. In fact, you can probably count on beating me next year. :)
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