every Saturday morning route she created and the team of amazing women
that woke up early and created a positive running experience. I
participated in the Allstate Half Marathon. I have so many emotions
that have gone in and out of my mind since I completed it that I do
not know how to completely express however I wanted to document the
experience in some way. The first interesting thing was I never got
oh my god tired. I did get oh no another hill, yeah I think I will
walk this one. I had to use the restroom in the midst of the run
actually at the beginning but the line was to long I said I can hold
it and I did for about half the race. But then I finally had to let
it go. This is kind of TMI but I love the story. So I went to pee
in one of the many porta potties and was watching my pee go into the
bowl but I felt like I was peeing on myself. I then realized it was
the enormous amount of sweat that I was creating. And then do you
know my pants were completely wet and getting up wet dry fit clothing
back over my thighs was like and oh oh moment. But I survived
obviously to tell you about it. There were great signs on the way my
favorite was the one that said don’t trust the feelings of a fart
after mile 5 it might be poop! And my second favorite was if it was
easy everybody would be doing it. True True True. My goal was to
finish in three hours, technically I finished in 2 hours and 46
minutes but per the Allstate Time I finished in 2 hours and 52
minutes. The difference is because there were over four thousand
people that ran so there would not be a stampede we started in waves
and I left in the last wave however the time started at the first
wave. The lower time is from the app on my phone that I started once
I crossed the starting line. I have a picture of my time per the app
below which also stated I ran more than 13.1. How awesome is that. I
think if I wanted I could do a marathon however for now I am feeling
I will do that for my 40th birthday. You never know I only decided
to do this half marathon after I saw Black Girls Run had a training
program starting. I was like you can train me I can do it. So here
are a few pictures of the day’s events!
