I'm beyond kidding, obviously. I was looking up Husky "congratulations" memes for you, and this came up. It was too fitting not to share.
But seriously, congratulations! That's an amazing accomplishment, no matter how you felt when you crossed the finish line. I'm positive I wouldn't even be able to hobble a half marathon, let alone finish a full. You rock, you did it, and you never have to do it again if you don't want to! YAY! I hope you were able to take off work today and get to cuddle your pups all day!
I shouldn't have read this post - I'm planning on running this next year as my one and only marathon in my life!
Hope you're not too sore today Elle!
My only advice would be to run a pretty one. Something flat, on the ocean or a lake. I would have liked this race much more had it not been hilly (not exceptionally hilly relative to other courses, but very hilly for someone who normally runs on a flat stretch of the beach). Or, if the one you are doing has hills, train for hills.
ETA: were you saying you are planing on running SD? If so, then yeah. Practice hills. Don't spurn them as I did. Lots and lots of hills. Long ones.
Ugh. Yes and those liars on H&F told me it was a really good race! Liars! I live in Houston - where there are NO HILLS!!! I'm pretty sure I will end up dropping to a half, but we'll see. I'm running it with a friend who wants to do it before we turn 40. DH and I have 3 half races planned between October and March, so I am hoping this will keep me on track with training, but we'll see.
SD was my first marathon. I was a novice and could not keep my pace where it should've been. Too fast, too early. I hit the wall big time at mile 18. And F those race organizers that said you ran through the zoo and along the ocean. Thats only true if the zoo is people's dogs and the ocean is freaking highway. So so many miles of highway running.
NYC was way more fun.
I'm excited to run Chicago in October and Boston in April. I hear Chicago is nice and flat and fast. I train on Heartbreak Hill, so hopefully Boston will be ok. Then I think I'm done. 13.1 is my comfort zone.
Anyway, congrats elle on finishing! Doesn't matter how you did it, you did it!!!
I'm beyond kidding, obviously. I was looking up Husky "congratulations" memes for you, and this came up. It was too fitting not to share.
But seriously, congratulations! That's an amazing accomplishment, no matter how you felt when you crossed the finish line. I'm positive I wouldn't even be able to hobble a half marathon, let alone finish a full. You rock, you did it, and you never have to do it again if you don't want to! YAY! I hope you were able to take off work today and get to cuddle your pups all day!
lol, this is one of my favorite gifs. I have it on my Facebook page. It is totally how my huskies acted at the finish line yesterday. I was so slow I didn't care about my time, so stopped, kissed DH and them, and crossed the finish line with them.
At one point, Disney was giving out Dixie cups of beer at mile 19.
They either didn't do this my first year running it or I was so slow it was all gone by the time I got there.
At any rate, the next time I ran it the guy was like "Gatorade on the left, Beer on the right!"
And I laughed all, "haha! I wish!" And he was SERIOUS! I was so happy.
I'm convinced this is partly because miles 18 - 20 are the worst part.
Beer > Gels
For a moment I was thinking this was my kind of race. Then I wondered what would persuade me to get to mile 18 in the first place. Nope. I'm just not a runner.
congrats elle! I ran the san diego one in 1999, but i'm not sure if the course is different nowadays. All i know is, mile 9 sucked ass and my body went numb by 11. I felt like I was flying at the end since I couldn't feel anything. Probably like this: