[caption id="attachment_338" align="alignnone" width="181"] Finishing 13.1 miles on a hot September Day! The thrill of a long term goal achievement![/caption] The Akron Half Marathon started out chilly at 60 degrees when we got into town and parked the car before the roads shut down at 6 am. It felt like dark thirty...
My last post covered our running of the half marathon in the Akron Marathon. I’m still so excited that we did it! Wow, it was fun. I think races might be more fun once they’re over. We did a lot of things right but now what we’ve run the race, I can see some things I’d do differently or just start to add to my training regime. What we could improve: We figured out how we needed to eat and drink when running long distances. We’d both only run shorter distances and so eating and drinking really hadn’t been a problem. Once you start running over an hour, you need to know how you’re going to get water and possibly some food. Once you’re running over two...
Woo hoo! We made it! Chris and I ran the half marathon last Saturday in the 2017 Akron Marathon this past weekend. We both ran around the times we had hoped for. Chris finished under three hours (way to go Chris!) and I finished around two hours and 35 minutes. [caption id="attachment_366" align="alignnone" width="300"] Chris and I at the Race Expo[/caption] I’m so proud of us for achieving this goal. The race was tremendous fun though harder than I was expecting. Think about a place that is about ten miles from your house. Now, add three more miles to that. That’s how far we ran. It was hot!!! We knew that the forecast was for a hot day and received multiple cautionary emails from the race organizers. Fortunately the...