Weekend Snippet: 13.1 Miles
Tara Posted on Monday, August 3, 2009 at 7:00AM The big event for us this weekend was the Rock and Roll half marathon. Followed closely by the Dog Day On the Green of course.
Training for and running our first half marathon was a great experience. Both of us have the goal of living a healthy, active lifestyle and find it to be an important part of our relationship to do things like this together as partners. We kept the 'start together finish together' plan in place during our training and through the race. We actually finished with the same time... which incidentally was just under our goal of two hours at 1 hour 53 minutes 13 seconds. This was the longest run of my life to date and it was quite the challenge. I am so happy to have had Dan by my side giving me little cheers of "your doing great, honey" and keeping me motivated to not walk by just being there (and boy did I want to at mile 11).
The other big event this weekend was the trip down to Soldier Field for the Dog Day on the Green. I was ready to take a nap after the race but that beagle knows how to work me with her sad little eyes. It was an interesting little festival for dogs... it was mostly just vendors selling things rather than active things for the dogs to do but they loved their first visit to Soldier Field and were all smiles.
Other than running and the dog day on the green, my main mission this weekend was to do a deep scrubbing of our apartment. So was both a quiet weekend and busy one all at the same time.
Reader Comments (3)
Congrats on your first half! What a great time!
Yeah it sounded like a great weekend until you brought up the scrubbing part.
Thank you, Jennifer!