another mother runner: Well that sucked.

Yep. There's just no other way to describe the 10k. I have vowed to never do that race again. It sucked all the confidence I had in my runs right the hell out of me. Just ask my lovely running partners, I cussed a lot during it and I still want to cuss when I think about it. It was hard. Ever since the race, I've been questioning whether I can REALLY do a half-marathon. Not a good feeling at all.

The problem is that it started at 8:00 so by then it was probably already 80 degrees. AND my goodness.. do they HAVE to include THAT many hills? Really? I'm kind of angry that people told me just how hilly and hard the course was before the race because I thought about the hills that were to come the ENTIRE run. So, I'd get moving and then the assvice of "save your energy for xx hill" that someone gave me would creep in and my body and mind would refuse to go another inch.

Grr..

I guess the good thing is that we finished and we survived. My time was 1:09 so an 11.10 mile. Again, not great, but whatever.

I felt like I had shin splints on Friday and iced them on Friday night but they were fine on Saturday. Shew! I think I dodged a bullet or something there. I didn't have any shin pain (er, none out of the ordinary) during the race.

Another reason I love my runnin' girls? I was a little ahead of my two partners at the very beginning of the race. I was running with someone I know but had NEVER run with before. Just before the 1mile mark, I hear "Emily! Emily!" and I turn around and my girls, pretty much at the same time, said "We are doing a 9-minute mile right now!!!" Obviously we all knew we'd NEVER survive 6.2 miles going 9-minute miles so we all slowed each other down. When we hit the 1 mile mark we were right at 10 minutes so that was perfect.

So, my time wasn't the best but I'm glad I had friends there to lean on and talk me out of some of the funk I had in my head.

Here's a couple pictures I stole from Jules' facebook page. I'm feeling WAY too lazy to download the ones on my camera! (I totally look preggers in all the pictures! I need to work on my posture.)

Me and Jules before the race:

Liz (our coach!), Maria, Jules and me. The three of us started this running thing last year when we trained for the July 4th 5k.

Me and KT before the race. He did the 2-miler in something crazy like 18 minutes?! He's seriously the best cheerleader ever. And I loved his green shirt because I could see him from way far away!