The hubby just had to finish to set a baseline time since he'd never run a half marathon before. I PR'd by 24 minutes. Um, that's A LOT!! That just goes to show how unprepared I was for my first HM. Not to dis my friend I ran it with!! (apologies for ending with a preposition...) She was in LA and we just met up in Phoenix to run it. So I was left to train by myself, in Syracuse, in the winter. Have I mentioned that Syracuse is one of the top 10 cities with the most snowfall in the US? You can see why I was having such a hard time staying motivated to train...
This time the hubby and I trained together, in the fall. And did I mention we're both very competitive?? So it's no surprise that it turned out much for me than me than I expected.
My goal, first and foremost, was to PR. But since that was just running better 13.1 miles faster than a 2:37:07, which is a 11min, 59 second mile, I had no doubt I could beat that - blow it out of the water. We had been sticking to our training scheduloe and been doing a great job! My big goal was to run a 10:30 min/ mile. Which would be a finish time of 2:17:39.
Well, since the hubby and I are so competitive we stayed together the WHOLE race. And we both ended up running faster than we would have if on our own. We ended up finishing in 2:13!! He finished in 2:13:13. I finished 14 seconds behind him!!! arg!!!! But that's ok. We still averaged a 10:11 min mile!! MUCH better than I expected!!!!
But there were definitely some casualties... (you can understand why I didn't post this to FB....) I'm pretty certain I'm going to loose some nails. Worse - I have two trade shows back-to-back coming up where I have to wear pumps! Ouch!!!
But the hubby did post other great pics to FB!!
The hubby's set the bar really high to set a PR on his second HM.... I hope he knows what he's gotten himself into...
1 comment:
What is "PR"? And, great job!!
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