The Thick and Thin

Well, it amazes me that so much time has passed since my previous post announcing that I'd signed up for the Nike+ Women's Half Marathon...TODAY, I ran the Nike+ Women's Half Marathon!

I trained for this race and was feeling pretty good about it, but then, we went to TX for the holidays....  I didn't get to run for those two weeks and then my return to nearly 9000 ft above sea level had me gasping for air.  To top that all off, I caught a cold.  I suddenly wasn't feeling so sure that this Half was such a good idea.

I decided to Just Do It.  Get it?  Nike?  ha

I set out from the back of the lake and headed to town (nearly 7 miles) and then headed up my favorite mining road for the last 6+.  At mile 2, I had the feeling that I wasn't going to finish.  So in my head, I divided the journey into 2 mile segments and told myself, "I only need to think about this 2 miles."  And so it went to mile 10.  Mile 11 was tough.  It was long.  But I only had 3 miles to go, and I can run 3 miles.  I walked a lot, actually.  But I finished when I wasn't sure I could.  And that's happy.

And...my 10k time (beginning of the run) was the best it's been in a long time.  Also happy.

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