Since I had all of this going on this weekend, I wanted to run it with a friend who was doing her first half marathon. She had signed up a while ago and thought she couldn't do it because she didn't train as much as she wanted to. Well- SHE DID IT! She's a pretty athletic person in general, and I honestly knew she could do it. We talked about how to handle the race and decided that we would use the run/walk approach (I think it's the Jeff Galloway method). We started this method from the beginning because time and time again I have seen runners run as much as they can before they start walking, and by then it's too late. See once your body hits a certain point, it's hard to start back up again and run.
So we started from the beginning, and after each mile we would walk for one minute. We started off slow because it's always better to underestimate your run rather than overestimate the run. And so we were off.... and at mile 7 we started experiencing the wall..... See, in my opinion when you're running a half marathon you hit a wall between mile 7-9/10. No matter how much you train, and how many times you've done it, pain starts to creep up in your body. The best thing to when hitting a wall is honestly to just run through it. Let your mind tell your body to shove it and run (or jog whatever it may be). Okay, now if your body is SCREAMING and I mean SCREAMING to stop out of physical pain then by all means please stop.
So after hitting the wall, we kept chugging along and slowly but surely we defeated the race. Overall, the race was beautiful! We passed by the water a lot and got to see the beautiful and artistic Miami Beach. The only thing that made me nervous was the weather. It looked like it was going to rain most of time, but it held up and was perfect running weather (cool and overcast).
So what was our time... I'm pretty sure we hit 2:30 but am awaiting actual results! Until next time :)
PS Wish me luck at my new job tomorrow!!
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