Saturday, November 20 at 6:30 am in Mesquite, Nevada we crossed the starting line, 13.1 miles away from accomplishment. In the next two hours and twenty seven minutes later the last four months paid off. The first one third of the course was mostly uphill which killed the calves. Luckily Provo has quite a few hills so we were well trained.
[photo captioned "Before"]
[photo captioned "After"]
[photo captioned "We did it!"]
[photo captioned "Best roomies ever!]
As we bused out to the starting point, we sat by a lady who said she had ran 8 marathons and this was her sixth half. After the race we were talking to her again and she said this was the hardest race shes ran due to the head wind of 20-30 mph and the terrain. It was no easy task running in wind that contradicted all movement forward and the horrible sand that was swept into the eyes.Crossing that finishing line was probably one of the hardest things I have done in my life. The feeling of accomplishment was amazing.
Now its just to decide when and where we will attempt a
full marathon
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Posted By Blogger to Clarissa (explains it all) at 11/24/2010 03:07:00 PM
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