What a weekend! It started on the best note ever--Michael passed his LEED exam on Friday afternoon! I am so excited for him and thoroughly impressed. It's one of the steps towards him getting his license, and what a weight off his mind.
Then we had a surprise party for my mother-in-law in Toms River on Saturday. We started the day with a quick 2-mile jog. Michael's getting better and better every day, and he's my favorite running partner. The party was SUCH fun! Everyone was there, even my parents and Joanne's as well. It was such a wonderful day. I only wish I could have stayed over, but the Philly Half Marathon was this morning!
I was not totally into it, what with all of the other excitement going on. Plus now that I've done 16 miles, 13.1? Pishaw! Just kidding. It was 28-degrees when I left the house at 6:00 am. TWENTY-EIGHT. I wore three shirts, two pairs of pants, a hat, and two pairs of gloves. These were actually very wise decisions, and I felt fine. I was least excited about waiting at the start, but I shouldn't have worried, because by the time I packed myself in with the other 18,000 runners, we were starting!
It was a really cool route, through Center City, Old City, Delaware Avenue, South Philly, Society Hill, West Philly and the Zoo, and then back down MLK Drive to the Art Museum. I would have loved it more if there hadn't been so many hills. Thank goodness no one told me about that beforehand, because that would have been a mind-killer. I kept on keeping on, waited for the Clif shots that never materialized despite being on the map for mile 9, and I finished in a little over 2 hours. My Garmin said it was 2 hours, 6 minutes. I ran the last 3 miles without a break, because I think I'm a superstar. The Philly Marathon website has no results, so I have no idea what my chip time was. However, if it was 2:06, that's 2 minutes faster than I did the Philadelphia Distance Run only 2 months ago. Yes!
I feel fine now. It was an anti-climactic end, and I just went home and did homework and slept, but tonight I'm off to dinner with a bunch of people from my team. Should be fun!
Oh and because I love how Amy and Derrick do this, but I can't figure out "jumps," here are my stats:
Distance: 13.21 miles
Time: 2:06:44
Average Pace: 9:35/mile
Average Speed: 6.3 mph
Total Calories: 1346 (which I ate at the party last night)
Average Heartrate: 169 bpm
Total Ascent: 4,241 ft (ridonkulous)
Hello to my avid readers from the Passarella family! You're so sweet to keep up with my progress, and your love and support means the world to me.
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3 comments:
You ARE a superstar! Congrats!
you are truly amazing
Fantastic! Nothing like a new personal best to motivate you in the middle of training for something. Great job out there.
And better to learn the "never trust that the course will offer what they say they will" lesson in a half than in a full. They almost always run out of things by the time I go through, so I carry everything I need other than water, and hope they have sufficient water (which they always have in runs, but I know some slow folks at triathlons who haven't gotten water at aid stations.. ack).
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