Hi there, readers. As you may or may not know, I’ve been a tad bit disillusioned lately. I’ve been feeling burned out and down on myself and so it was with a very reluctantly hopeful heart that I registered for the Mermaid Run Half Marathon a few weeks ago… which I ran today! And I finally, finally had a great race!
I set out to run a PR and ended up beating my best half marathon time (from 1.5 years ago) by more than four minutes!
I don’t think I can even begin to explain how much I needed this, but I did. And I’m grateful (especially for my hubby, who got up at 6am on a Saturday morning to drive me to the Start Line in his bathrobe, twice. When we got there the first time, it started raining and I wanted my visor, so he drove me home quickly, I changed my entire race outfit for the third time, and it just made him laugh. AND he drove back a third time to spectate with Sully–cheering for me at Mile 9 and later running me to the finish. Seriously, luckiest wife ever, right?).
Speaking of “happy pace,” I still can’t believe I was able to pull off and even moreso, to maintain these paces…
Mile 1 – 8:26
Mile 2 – 8:26
Mile 3 – 8:30
Mile 4 – 8:19
Mile 5 – 8:31
Mile 6 – 8:24
Mile 7 – 8:27
Mile 8 – 8:17
Mile 9 – 8:16
Mile 10 – 8:21
Mile 11 – 8:19
Mile 12 – 8:21
Mile 13.1 – 8:20/mile
Official Finish: 13.1 miles, 1:49:11 (8:20/mile)
Out of 173 runners, I finished in 13th place overall, managed 4th in my age group, and pretty much floated through the day on a cloud 9 runner’s high.
Like I said… So needed this.
