Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Lead Up to MY Great Race (NWM Part 1)

I recently ran my first half marathon! I was an unforgettable experience, and I am already looking forward to my next half marathon (I have NO intention of running a full marathon in the foreseeable future)!
I decided to sign up for the Nike Women’s Half Marathon along with a few of my girlfriends. We are a pretty athlete group of girls, but most of us had never run a half marathon.  So it was quite an eye opening experience for most of us.
We signed up in the spring while we were all in great shape! While we defiantly were not runners, we were some of the fittest girls on campus, so the race would be a breeze! Right?
NO! Most defiantly NOT!
When summer came along we went our separate ways for break, and I trained HARD! Like, two workouts a day HARD! I was feeling great, and looking forward to running the half, mostly because I thought it would be easy, and fun! Little did I know what the world had in store for me!
I injured myself pretty badly towards the end of the summer, and my training cam to a screeching halt. As an athletic person, this was devastating. Literally world shattering.
I got back to running as soon as I could, but I had pretty much turned to a lump of skin and bones.  So I decided to simply run the race for fun, not for time. I was going to run just for myself, which was a foreign concept for me.
I started to focus on running to feel good, not to beat the clock. And I fell in love with running!
Then I came back to school, and my life got REALLY busy! So, I hard to put running on the back burner.
Before I knew it, it was the weekend of the race! And was I ready to RUN!

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