I finished, and I finished well! My goals were met and I had a blast, the two things I wanted to accomplish out of this new avenue! Like bike racing I see this becoming my new thing, my new niche! When we arrived in Eugene I saw the magnitude of what this was. There was 6,000 competitors there! It was insane that this race was the size of half of La Grande's population! The course was amazing and I felt great the whole time! My main struggle in training was that I would get a stitch in my right side for the first half hour of each run, during the race that didn't happen. I did a couple things different: first, I ran a mile before the race at a comfortable pace just to warm up...second, I didn't listen to music and that allowed me to really focus on what my body and breath was doing! It was a huge accomplishment! I my overall place in the half marathon category was 156 out of 2640, and 8th place out of 268 in my division! I ran in it 1:36, my pace was 7:22 per mile! Just thought I'd let you all know how it went!
Running through the streets like cattle!
Me, Janelle and Kim! They did amazing too!
Coming in for the finish!
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