Las Vegas Half Marathon

Good Evening!

So, after an abnormal Las Vegas weekend, I have returned home without luggage - and my pilot light is out...

So lets start from June 2009:

I signed up for the San Jose Half Marathon and the Las Vegas Half Marathon, hoping that I would train and run with my Team in Training friends. Well, I did train for the SJ Half, but unfortunately (given the passing of my Mom and a fall that I had on the beach in Monterey) I did not run San Jose this year. SJ was on Oct 4. Then I did not run in October. That's right, no running. So November 1st comes along and I ran the Apple HILL 8.5 mile run. I beautiful run with a capital H-I-L-L!

So, I did some here and there training through November, knowing that there was no way I could finish Vegas if I didn't get some training. But, as it was, I did not complete my 'Long' run and held my runs to 3-6 miles. Not a good training schedule.

Needless to say I was nervous about the Vegas Half.

Jump to this past Friday. After work on Friday, Jeremy and I headed to the airport and flew to Las Vegas. We spent Friday and Saturday attending the Expo with friends and just relaxing - preparing for Sunday morning. At 4:30 am on Sunday, a bunch of us headed to the outside of the Mandalay Bay hotel to start our Half Marathon.


Brrr.... Cold! (35 degrees)

So, the race went well. I ran the first 4 (ish) miles with Heather. Then I caught up with Lindsay and Bethany. Then ran miles 5-13.1 and finished the race with Lindsay. We were pushing for a new PR for me, which I thought was 2:45 or 2:50, and we got in at exactly 2:46. BUT then I found out that my Half PR is 2:39... oh well.

Overall the weekend was fun, the race was one of the best ever, and I really enjoyed the weekend with Jeremy and all of my friends.