So, we didn’t die as predicted…
Wow, so in the spirit of the “App of the week” I thought I’d give some more details on my race last week.
Last Saturday, Vince Butler and I ran our first half-marathon. 13.1 miles in case you didn’t know. It was an absolutely incredible experience. It’s hard to believe that running that far at a single time without T-rex chasing you can be an incredible experience but it was. There were 10,000 other crazy people there to join us as well as onlookers all through the route. The route took us all around the city of Columbus and I got to see areas I’d never been in(and don’t plan ever seeing again). It rained for the last half of the race but it was welcomed. It was like running in air conditioning.
When I first signed up for the race, my goal was to finish without stopping at all and didn’t really care what my pace and time was. As I began to train and started to figure out what my approximate time was, I knew I was probably going to finish around 1 hour and 55 minutes. During the race, my GPS app quit working around mile 10 because of cloud cover so I didn’t know what my time and pace was in the last 3 miles so I was expecting a finish time around my training time. When I saw the results posted online I was completely blown away. Time: 1:43:53 Pace: 7:56 Overall Place 421(out of 10k) and 62nd in my age group(25-30). This was way better than I’d expected and what I thought I was capable of. The energy of all the other people and the overall excitement of the event must have fueled me.
My buddy Vince(Guy in the red shirt below) did a pretty good job himself finishing at 1:55:09. Since the event, we’ve decided to go ahead and train over the summer for the full marathon that’s coming in October. I can’t even begin to imagine that distance but then again I couldn’t imagine do the half a year ago either. Wish us luck as we train and honk if you see us running though Canal, Groveport, or Picktown.
Oh, don’t mind the copyright line. For some reason, I didn’t want to pay $14.95 for each 5×7 print. 
