I was feeling like I needed a challenge a few weeks ago, and since I have been staying pretty conditioned since my marathon in August, I got this crazy idea to do another half-marathon!!! Well, all of the rest of the runs in Utah are all full or registration was closed, so I decided to do my own. I mapped out the distance on mapmyrun.com and charted a lovely 13.1 course on the Jordan River Parkway. We prepared for the run by having an enormous dinner at Texas roadhouse that included a lot of rolls, potatoes, sugar... Mom and Amanda were my Krew for the run, and cruised on the beach cruisers and cheered for me the entire time. I only caught their cheers in between songs on my sjpod list because I was listening to it full blast to keep my mind off what I was doing for 2 hours 14 minutes!!! The last mile, I caught a second wind and pushed myself pretty hard to finish! Kyle was waiting at the end with Jamba Juices for all of us, which was a fantastic surprise! I had no idea he was planning on being there! We all celebrated and then I came home for a nice long shower. Mom and I are going to do the St. George 1/2 marathon in January, so we will be gearing up for that soon!
At dinner!
The dinner before the run! Texas roadhouse!!!
9 comments:
Sarita, I just can't believe you. I'm so proud of you and how you challenge yourself. What determination! How terrific. I don't know how you have energy to blog after a 13.1 mile run. I love that you had your fabulous cheering crew, as well. And it doesn't surprise me that Kyle was out with the Jamba Juice. You guys really do things the right way. Love you much, G-ma
Sarah,
You've really done well with your races. I really admire that.
2 hours and 14 mins of running!!! Your are my hero.
Way to go I was that I could do it. Keep it up. You look great
you are so cool! I love that you put together your own Race! Jared would love it if i did that so I wouldn't spend so much money on Races ;)
Texas Roadhouse! What a perfect night before dinner! Good for you, you look amazing! For now, I need to tone it down with running, but I can't wait til I can do another half! You're amazing!
I've recently realized how much I love running, but I simply don't have the motivation to pull something like this off.
You CRAZY WOMAN!!!!!! I didn't know you were so "hard core"!! And where in the heck is this Texas Roadhouse place?? I REALLY want to go there!!
woman you look fabulous!! your mom just told me you guys run and was wonderin if you wanted to run the wasatch back with me and my sis?(and 9 others of course) it is in june and is a 24 hour race i think it is gonna be sooooooo much fun and you would lOVE it! (maybe you are already doing it?) anyway let me know!
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