Capital City Half Marathon

This is me and my super-duper good friend Sarah just before running the Columbus half marathon.

I used to be a pretty good runner back in the highschool days. My junior year I did varsity track, cross country, and cheerleading. I went to regionals in track and state alternate on our state champ cross country team. I was also on a pretty competitive cheer squad, plus I had seminary every morning at 5:45am followed by cross country 1st hour, track and cheer practice after school, plus games and meets, and I worked at a restaurant when I wasn't doing those things. So I guess you could say I kinda got burned out after my junior year, so I quit running, and I think that bummed my parents. I think they, especially my dad are glad to see me running again.

I ran the Capital City Half Marathon today. Brody told me not to overdo it (he knows me too well). I took his advise at the beginning and started off at about 8:40 pace the first 6.5 miles, and I felt so great that I sped up the pace to about 8:00 for the 2nd half of the race. I finished with a time of 1:49:20 which is 8:21 overall mile pace. I was the 36th out of 841 female finisher in my age group. The race was awesome. There were almost 7,000 runners there. It was my first half marathon, and I think I'm crazy enough to want to do it again.