Seattle Rock and Roll 1/2 Marathon

At the end of June, I participated in the Seattle Rock and Roll Half Marathon. I was a little nervous before the run because I had recently slacked a lot in my training. I seemed to peak and feel really good when running about a month before the race and ever since, just felt like my legs were slow and heavy. I was excited, however, to have a great weekend with wonderful girlfriends Gina, Danika, and Christine. Ryan took the Friday before off from work which allowed us to "play" in Seattle almost the whole day. We had fun at the expo, had a yummy pasta dinner, and even yummier frozen yogurt. Gina's brother was generous enough to let us stay at his apartment in Seattle. We headed there pretty early and tried to get some sleep since we had to wake up at 4am to catch the shuttle to the start line. We got there in time to visit the "honey buckets" a couple of times and get to the start. I had such an great run!!! It was a beautiful course with such a fun atmosphere. There were lots of bands, tons of cheer squads, and a whole bunch of spectators that made the whole 13.1 miles such fun. I think I was so pleasantly surprised because I was skeptical about how a race with 26, 000 people could actually go smoothly...but it did. I was able to finish in 1 hour 48 minutes which was faster than I expected-but as I was running and realized I was going pretty quick-my goal then became to beat Ryan's time from last year of 1 hour 45 minutes. I pushed it too hard from mile 10-12 and really lost it that last mile. Oh well! Hopefully next year we can race together and I can beat him then. :)

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Spenser, Barrett, Autumn, Christine, Gina, Danika, Me

We are such tough chicks :)

Autumn and Barrett

5am on the school bus to the start line :)