Wow I haven't blogged in such a long time and so much has happened since the last time I blogged but lets just start with everything happening since the new year started. With out a doubt I'm running LA again and this training season has been another tough one for me between getting a str
ess fracture in my foot, having knee problems again, and my asthma acting up I was having my doubts on running the marathon this year but at the Irvine half marathon in early January I remembered why I push through all these injuries and hard running times. It was my 20th half marathon which I was so excited about I couldn't believe only 19 and already racing my 20th half marathon but I knew I wouldn't PR so I had another goal in mind to me time doesn't matter anymore so I wanted to help one of our runners out getting to his goal all he wanted to do was break 3hours since 2and a half was out of the question when I caught up to him so we set out on his second goal and sure enough he barely did it by a few seconds the smile on his face was priceless and I couldn't of been happier to help it also had me realize something about myself how much I care about my team mates and I hope I can help him reach his goal of 2:30 next half marathon. Since that race I've been running pretty bad until last Saturday when we had a choice between 15-18.5 miles I knew right when I started I wanted a taste of that 18.5 and I sure did attack it I haven't felt that great running in such a long time it felt like the old me and let me tell you the course wasn't easy it was 3 loops in our town one loop had 3 major hills in it to add to the 15 miles I love getting to our 2nd water stop every time around because it was the water stop with some of my favorite adults Tony and Bob who encouraged and boosted our confidence. I hope the rest of my running season is like last Saturdays practice if it is I'll for sure PR at the marathon this year less then 2months away!!
ess fracture in my foot, having knee problems again, and my asthma acting up I was having my doubts on running the marathon this year but at the Irvine half marathon in early January I remembered why I push through all these injuries and hard running times. It was my 20th half marathon which I was so excited about I couldn't believe only 19 and already racing my 20th half marathon but I knew I wouldn't PR so I had another goal in mind to me time doesn't matter anymore so I wanted to help one of our runners out getting to his goal all he wanted to do was break 3hours since 2and a half was out of the question when I caught up to him so we set out on his second goal and sure enough he barely did it by a few seconds the smile on his face was priceless and I couldn't of been happier to help it also had me realize something about myself how much I care about my team mates and I hope I can help him reach his goal of 2:30 next half marathon. Since that race I've been running pretty bad until last Saturday when we had a choice between 15-18.5 miles I knew right when I started I wanted a taste of that 18.5 and I sure did attack it I haven't felt that great running in such a long time it felt like the old me and let me tell you the course wasn't easy it was 3 loops in our town one loop had 3 major hills in it to add to the 15 miles I love getting to our 2nd water stop every time around because it was the water stop with some of my favorite adults Tony and Bob who encouraged and boosted our confidence. I hope the rest of my running season is like last Saturdays practice if it is I'll for sure PR at the marathon this year less then 2months away!!
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ReplyDeleteGlad to see you are blogging again! I had so much fun on Saturday working the water stop, although I would have rather been running....hopefully Saturday. PT appointment tomorrow. Keep up the good work, very cool that you paced someone to a new PR. I did that at Disneyland HM in September...what a feeling.