Saturday, September 12, 2009
26.2 Miles!
While running yesterday for the last time before the actual race on Sunday, I was thinking how excited and nervous about this whole marathon thing I really am. I have those butterflies in my stomach I used to have when a big swim meet was coming up back in the days. I pretty much have been an "athlete" my entire life, swimming a ridiculous amount miles, lifting, running, and doing everything else we did at 5:30 am before others were even awake. But I truly believe that a continuous 26.2 mile run will be the hardest physical experience I will ever go through. Amy reminded me yesterday that while running the marathon will be very hard, she gave BIRTH, and that is in a whole other level of difficulty! So around mile 20, when I will be feeling exhausted, and will want to just stop running, sit down and cry, I'll make sure to remember January 2nd 2009, when Amy was going to a very long 12 hour labor.....the SuperUltraIronman if you will. That should help me keep going.
Next week I will be letting you know how it goes.......have a good one.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Do you know how hard it was to......
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!
Friday, July 31, 2009
The baby girl and me!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Claire's Photo Shoot!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Brazil 3 x 2 USA
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
5 months (and 15 days)!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
"I Pity the Fool!"
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
3 years!!!!!!!!!
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Feeding Time!
Confused
I am not sure about this!
Ok, ok....I like it
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
It takes more than one try...
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
Half Marathon, check!
Mile 2: More of the same....same pace, more rain, dodging puddles!
Amy and Claire cheering me on! Claire was wearing her runners "bib"!
Mile 8: Energized by my personal cheerleaders, I probably had my best mile. Under 7:30! However, this is also the mile where I realized a couple of things: 1) I REALLY needed to go to the bathroom...I had been holding since mile 1 (so much for staying hydrated and drinking lots of water prior to the race). 2) The rain was not letting up and my shoes were now soaked and heavy. I started to feel blisters forming on both my my feet, and I still had another 5 miles to go.
Mile 9: Bathroom break. That's right, I stopped at a conveniently positioned porter-party next to the course path. This added about 45 seconds to my time, gave me some much needed relief, and officially made me an amateur runner.
Mile 10: At this point I had realized that this was the farthest I had ever ran before. I did not have much left to go, but I was starting to feel the race on my back. My feet hurt. Rain still coming down.
Mile 11-13: These were kindda of a blur. I don't remember much of them except that I just wanted to get to the finish line. I knew my pace had slowed down but I was still on target to make it under my goal of 1:45.
Finish: A quick sprint to cross the finish line.....official time.....1:44:32, success! Under the rained I started to make my way back to my car. I finished in 558th place out of 8533 half-marathoners. Not bad for a first timer! A special thanks to Amy, Kelly and Claire for coming to watch me!
Here are a few pictures taken by Kelly.
Claire giving me some pointers before the race
Her "bib" says "daddy's future running buddy"
The end!