I Survived!

Here are my race results from today's half marathon...

Place

Name

City

Bib No

Age

Overall

Chip Time

Gun Time

Pace

50

Kate Watson

American Fork UT

H0993

40

795

2:43:20.8

2:45:02.8

12:28/M

That is 50th place for my age group (Women aged 40-44).  There were only 58 in my age group, so you can see I have lots of room for improvement.  I was 795th overall (out of 912 who finished the race). 

Still, I DID IT!  This has been no small thing.  I have heard of an exercise movement called Couch Potato to 5K... I went from a couch potato to a half marathon!

Bill drove me there and waited with me until the start of the race.   He came back with the kids + Megan to ring me across the finish line with the cow bells we picked up at his last big race.  I was able to save up one last burst of energy so that I could jog across the finish.

The race course was very beautiful, but WAY too hilly!  Oi!  The hills just about killed me!  I had to walk almost every single one... both up and down.  The steep downs hurt my knee and my cardio level wasn't up the the inclines.  I managed to stay with the last pacer for the first 2 miles.  She was maintaining a 2 hr 20 min pace.  But I just couldn't sustain that speed and had to fall back.  I also now have a very good idea of what the Thanksgiving Point golf course cart road pavement looks like, since I stared at it for so long as I trudged along.

I am so glad that I am done! 

Now I have about 6 or 7 weeks until the next half marathon on June 11th.  I am going to design a training schedule so that I can speed up and get a better time on that one!

For now, though.  I just want to sleep.  First, however, we need to head up to Salt Lake City and attend the Japanese Festival so that Will can get the extra credit point for going to it.