Run Surf City (Huntington Beach)

So they day finally came. Running the HB half marathon. I’d been looking forward to this for sometime. I always hated running. But I decided I would challenge myself and see if I could run a half marathon. Actually another motivation was when I broke my elbow back in August mountain biking. I knew I couldn’t ride for sometime. So running was my best option to stay in shape. While training for it I was averaging 10 minute miles when I was running over 5 miles. I wanted to hopefully do better on race day. I was hoping to keep it under 2 hours. So I got up early Sunday ready to go.

My friend Mark from Colorado came into town for the race. Major cudos to mark. He had a wedding Saturday night to shoot in Arizona. He didn’t finish until 10:30. So he had to drive overnight. He arrived around 4am. Then got a couple hours of sleep woke up and ran the race. Go Mark,your an animal.

Also Michelle’s husband Heath joined us. He ran it last year. Last year I was standing at the finish line cheering Heath on. Thinking I would never do this run. What a difference a year makes.

Ready to take on the day

It was so great getting to run down the middle of PCH.

100 yards to the finish line. YAAAAA!!!

 

Stephanie didn’t like my sweaty body

 

 

I love the medal

The results:

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