It's kinda strange...

But I am kinda sad that I have officially run in my first Mini (and probably my last) Marathon which is 13.1 miles.  It was horrible.  I think the only goal I reached was that I did finish it....on my own two feet (barely).  I did not reach my goal of beating my previous pace of 12:13 and in fact was at 14:06.  Finish time was 3:04:48 which was about 20 minutes slower than my estimate.  Here is a picture of the P corral at the start, I was in the O.

I loved running the Motor Speedway and did take a picture of the track..... but by the time I exited (about Mile 9) I could tell I was done.  Everytime I tried to start up running again after about 1-2 minutes my calves would cramp so bad, I literally couldn't take a stride....so probably walked mostly the final 4 miles.  Be that as it may, that means that when I did run, I was turning great speed!!!  So, I guess, will have to see 

whatother races to train for (this fall).  

My running  friends say not to be so hard on myself...the humidity was 98% and most of them did not perform as well as they had anticipated either.  The worst part of the race, was the very very slow walk back to the hotel.

Excuse me while I go soak in the tub.