I promise I'll post pictures tomorrow, but I had to write this before I went to bed while it is still fresh in my mind (sort of...my brain is *really* mushy right now). :) With close to 10,000 people participating in both the half marathon and 5k, I was able to finish the 13.1 miles through Golden Gate Park and along the Great Highway in under 3 hours. UNDER 3 HOURS!!! That's about a 13.75 minute mile. From my original hope of something around 15 minutes per mile, I smashed all of my little personal goals!
To give you a sense of how it looked, here's a picture of the course map:
(not to scale, but pretty darn close!)
I wanted to give a quick shout out to the some folks as well (finally! I get to give my acceptance speech! ha):
To my running partner, Dianne - thanks for being there and for pushing me along. And especially for being patient with me as I took those extra walk breaks. Without you (and your Garmin!), the journey would not have been as enjoyable.
To the TNT coaches, Tim, Hao & Kris - a huge thanks for kicking our asses each week at Tuesday night clinics and for giving me to tools to do the training right. A lot of my injury prevention/minimization is because of you. And a special thanks to Tim & Hao for being there during the race and to Tim for reminding me about why I was doing this. For Karen.
To the TNT Training Captains, Community Captains, Mentors & Simone - thanks for being the cheerleaders that you are. To have a few of you run with us along the course and hold some conversation makes a world of difference.
To TNT in general - it is awesome to hear you cheer for anyone in a TNT shirt. Little things like that mean a lot.
To the Honorees - you are why I do this and I thank you for sharing your stories and encouragement with us.
To Josh & Kyra - I love you. And I know you love me. That's all that matters and everything is right in the world. Thank you for your support in all of this.
And lastly (but not least), to CYN & SMNB - for hanging in there and completely this with me. You are both supremely strong women and I have to give you major props for walking back and then running a bit with me to the finish line. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for being there and seeing this through.
And thank you. Yes you. For you, the reader of this blog, is who I write for (well, a bit for myself too so I can remember these types of things) and I hope that I inspire you to do something like this someday. At least once in your life. Just once. :)
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