Yeah, I know, one year ago I was swearing up and down that I would NEVER do this again! But then my competitive side took over and convinced me that I needed to run the Utah Valley Half Marathon again. Why? ... try and do a little better on my time and have a race that I didn't want to die doing. I signed up WAY early. (I need the motivation of a race to make me train). I will admit that I have been very glad to have the excuse of this race to go running. It has been a bit of a stressful (to say the least) couple of months. I actually got to where I liked running and was glad to have the stress relief it provided.
Em, Gavin and Josh all signed up too. It was so nice to have Josh to train with. I love running at night but don't often do it (not very wise for a girl to run alone at night). It's much more fun to have people at the starting line ... and finish line!
It was a beautiful day for a race! Pete met me at mile 10 and ran the last 3 with me. I am pretty sure I would have laid down and still be in the gutter on University Ave if he would not have been there prodding me along. I definitely did better because he was running with me, he was a great motivator! I felt much better than I did last year. I shaved 5 minutes off my time. So all and all I had a successful race.
I won't swear off doing another one ... but I am not totally committing either.
1 comment:
yay for the PR, love you!
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