NEW PR!!!

WOOT WOOT! AWWW yea - promptly after writing this post I'll be updating my sidebar with PR times :-)

Yesterday's Rock n' Roll Half Marathon was "rockin', rollin', and whatnah" (name that movie!) I got a great night sleep the night before and although I missed the Phillies winning the NL East...it was worth it (plus, they've won 5 years in a row now....bite my tongue for saying that...I shouldn't take it for granted!)....but I digress.

I woke up bright and early at 5am - had my usual peanut butter on an english muffin and a nice cup of coffee. I also had some water (which came back later to bite me in the butt but oh well). Bethany arrived at my mom's house at 6:15ish and we were on our way. We were down at the start by 6:50 and had an hour or so to kill so we made a bee line to the bag drop off (I always bring something to either change into or put over me and since I knew it was going to be cooler that morning, I brought a sweatshirt - THANK GOODNESS! I was fa-ree-zing! More on that later). We then made a direct walk over to the port-a-potties (first of the morning) and got in and out and on our way.....to which we then took some pictures:
















So my time on the website says 1:47.59 but like I said, the course was actually 13.45 miles and not 13.1. My Garmin says I ran 13.1 in 1:43.28....so we're going with that :-)

The rest of the day.....I took an ice bath for my leggies...then just chilled at home. It was a relaxing Sunday. Now...on to training for the full in November. EEK!

Philadelphia Rock n' Roll Half Marathon!

A few signs I saw on my run yesterday that I absolutely loved!.....

"I'm proud of you complete stranger!"

"What if the Hokey Pokey IS what it's all about?"

"There's beer at the end....I promise" (and there was! haha)

"13.1 miles = 5.5 donuts"

Haha....love it.....

Anyway...on to the pictures and update.

Honestly, it was seriously the BEST run I've had ever. Great Weather. Great Company. Awesome Atmosphere. Just everything was great from the start of the day. I even got a good night sleep. Earlier in the week I was worried I would have trouble breathing because of being sick but I woke up refreshed from a solid 7.5 hours. I had my coffee and english muffin with peanut butter. Bruce dropped Bethany and I off at the race around 7 and we had an hour to get things sussed out.

I dropped off a bag at the bag check (of things I didn't even use later). We then proceeded to stretch and use the portapotty's....twice! Haha. Here's a few pics.










So the race went off without a hitch! I averaged about an 8:30 pace. I couldn't believe it myself! My Garmin said we actually ran about 13.45 miles - more than the 13.1. My final time was around 1:54.29. I smashed my last time of 2 hours flat by nearly 5 and 1/2 minutes! yessssss. I was pretty pleased. Bethany came in seriously 30 seconds behind me. It was perfect! We decided we'd run other ones together since we're so close in pace time. I'm so happy and it was a great day. Here's a few from after the race :-)











So overall great race!

This week is another slightly busy week. Today I'm gonna go for an EASY 5 or 6 miler. I have class tonight. I'll probably do some GRE studying. I signed up for them for October 15th. I'd really like to get a good score on them.

Tomorrow I am going to the Phillies Game! Yeah!

The rest of the week is the usual. More to update later.