On Saturday I ran in the Viking Fest Road Race for the second year in a row. The five miler is a great prep for the half marathon that is in less than 11 days! Wow did that ever sneak up on me. Needless to say I'm very glad that I decided to downgrade to the half and wait until Fall to run a full marathon.
Last year's Viking Fest run was a great confidence builder for me. This year was even better!
Brian ran with me and was a great motivator. His goal for us was to run the five miles in 45 minutes.... my goal was to just break the 50 minute mark I set last year.
The weather was gorgeous for the run. Sunny and beautiful!
See??? It was so nice outside we needed matching shades.
I know that for the half-marathon that's coming up I probably wont be able to keep up a 9:30 pace, but hopefully I can push myself and beat last year's finish.
Also.... This half marathon HAS TO BE the jump start for my full marathon training. I can manage to bullshit my way through a half-marathon.... but let's get real 26.2 miles is serious business..... and I need to get serious.
After we got back home from the race it was time to watch the set up for the parade on my street! I invited some friends over and we had a little picnic while the marching bands and parade princesses assembled.
The Girl Scout troop that included my Aunt Dawn and cousins Madeline and Josephine! So stinking cute!
I love seeing pictures of Ashley and crew on the blog! I miss them!
ReplyDeleteI am impressed that you run with your boyfriend. I am not sure that would be too inspiring for me and Lars. ;) Haha, I'm sure it would be fine actually, we play soccer together quite often on his work team and that goes totally fine.
(But I'm still impressed). ;)