Half Marathon Race Report

Success!! My sister completed her first half marathon in 03:04:22 just shy of her 2nd goal of under 3 hours. The first goal was to finish.

The course had to be changed at the last minute due to the flooding that happened the week before. In fact, they were still pumping water out from an underpass the morning of the race! You'd never know it though. Everything went very smoothly. The organizers, 3W Races, did a fantastic job and so did the city of Westminster. Much kudos to them both.

Here is a link to our Garmin stats for the race:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/379169666

We had a comfortable pace for most of it but, once we hit the 10 mile mark, my sister lost her confidence a bit. Not really her confidence but, she kind of hit a mental wall. 10 miles had been the longest training run we'd done prior to the race. She was worried about it before we even got there. So, once we got there, I think she expected to fall apart. Which of course wasn't going to happen. But, all in all, it was a very good run.

During much of the race she talked a lot about the next half or when we do this same race next year. She was clearly not intimidated by the distance. :-) 

The finish chute!

It is quite an accomplishment, the half marathon. This was my 6th one and at the end of it I still felt like I did after each of the other 5 half marathons. I can't believe I just did that!

We are taking the weekend off. Haven't done that in a while. After that we are going to stick with maintaining our base and run a couple of 5Ks, maybe 10Ks.

Last weekend we completed the Hot Chocolate 15K in downtown Denver. That was fun! Lots of chocolate! But, after that run it will be nice to just relax for a bit.

At the start!

I'm thinking of the Rock and Roll half in Raleigh in April.