2:05:47

Well first of all I'd like to apologize for being awfully late with this post. With that said, onward and upward! 

So Thanksgiving was a pretty eventful day to say the least, ran my first half marathon and quite honestly...it wasn't that bad. 

I suppose I had built up this event like it was the Ironman Triathlon (the one held in Hawaii every year) but quite frankly I was able to cope with everything, including the cold temperatures pretty admirably I must say. All that hard work and training had definitely paid off, but what really put me over the top, was the sense of excitement and anticipation that I had leading up to the start. There were so many times I just wanted to explode my pace, but I knew I'd need to conserve energy towards the finish and thankfully I did because they had some massive hills to climb (which really pissed me off and annoyed me to no end haha). If there's one piece of advice I would give to someone whose training for a race of any sort, is to run on trails or courses that feature lots of hills or some hills. Hill work is extremely beneficial, because well for one it makes your legs stronger...and well shit that's pretty much all I got, but trust me when I say that hill work can make a big difference between an easy race and a very hard race.

So I officially timed in at 2:05:47, which is much much quicker than even I imagined, but as a few days passed I sat back and really thought about it, and I didn't feel that sense of satisfaction that I expected from this whole experience. Perhaps it's because I felt like I could have ran harder, or maybe I need to run longer races exclusively (marathons, 50k, etc.). Either way I plan to find the answer to that question, by running in a few half marathons and then setting myself up for a big marathon challenge. 

Well thanks again for reading, happy running.