How many crazy people turn 31 and then run a half-marathon?!?!?! Me! LOL. I'm not really crazy, just thought I'd train for something concrete instead of just working out. So I signed up to run in the Kuldiga, Latvia pusmaraton (half-marathon) on August 8, 2010. Well, Latvia has been experiencing it's hottest summer in something crazy like 85 years! So it was really warm and the race didn't start until 1 pm!
(Pics to come soon)
It's amazing how running that far in that kind of weather can drain you. I've been training for about a year now and I should have been able to finish the half-marathon in 2 hours, but because of the heat and the cobblestone (I haven't been running on cobblestone during my training so I had to slow down when the streets turned to cobblestone so I wouldn't break my ankle!) it took me 2 hours 25 minutes and 25 seconds. :( Which means that my marathon will take me over 5 hours to run! Well, I can't have that! So I've started running faster on my training sessions. I'm gonna finish the marathon in 4 hours 30 minutes!!
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