One Down Two To Go!!

Well the Marine Corps half is done and the results are in the books! Ok so the results (at least MY results) aren't the best, but I have to keep reminding myself that I did finish and that is what matters for my first half. Honestly I am very proud of myself, I did walk way too much and I didn't mentally prepare myself as much as I should have. The way I see it though that is all part of the whole experience.

I could blame the weather -85% humidity at the 7AM start - haha but honestly I know that it was just me not being able to get my little legs a-moving on that Riverwalk. However I did see two manatees during my stroll LOL...ok I was power walking it wasn't just a stroll.

A few positives - and there were plenty of those - I beat my 10k time from the River Run, I realized I can run a lot longer/farther than I give myself credit for and I didn't feel totally miserable afterward (that was probably due to the 500mg naproxyn). A few lessons learned - cross training is really important, I need to concentrate on my arms, of all of the places to be sore my forearms are the worse and I totally was not expecting that. I still have a slight twinge in my right calf muscle from the massive cramp I got at the finish line but I'm sure that will work itself out. I started back with yoga yesterday and I know that helped work out a lot of the soreness.

So what's next? The Outback half is in a little more than 6 weeks so I am taking this week to ramp up my cross training then back to a few miles running next week and building on from there! Knowing that I can complete a half is amazing, now I need to focus on being able to finish it with a better time than the first one. No bridges in the next one, on a route I am used to running for my long runs and not as much time to obsess about it or become bored with training.