Race Time is in!!!!

I've been desperately checking the YMCA's website, hopeful that the time results of our run on Saturday would be posted. I made several phone calls just double checking I had the right website. Obsessed? Naw, just ANXIOUS!

So finally I get home tonight and though I was told on the phone this afternoon the results would be posted tomorrow, I took Angel's advice and checked anyway :-) Sure enough, they posted!!! Unfortunately no pics have posted yet for me "borrow" but that's okay- the time was in.

As I said in my first post about the run, I thought I did it in about 52 minutes. Well I am HAPPY to admit, I was WRONG! Did you catch that honey?! I'm admitting I'm wrong! (who am I kidding, I'm wrong all the time! haha)

I completed the race in EXACTLY 50:00minutes!!!!! No additional seconds! Crazy huh?! That may seem like a lengthy average mile (10 minutes) but for me...a girl who just recently started running a few days a week, I thought that was pretty good! I am SO proud of myself! One, for actually following through and participating, two for not stopping but a couple of times (uphill portion about killed me which I didn't stop until after I huffed up the hills), and three for finishing in under an HOUR! That was my internal, private goal. I exceeded it by 10 minutes!! WAHOO!!!

Now I'm very anxious to decrease my average mile time, but at the same time, I'm feeling very excited to start training for a half marathon! Who cares if it takes me all day...the natural "high" I felt after my run Saturday I'm sure would be SO intensified by completing a half marathon!

I ran today at lunch, and it's just NOT the same. No one was passing me up...I wasn't passing anyone up...and all I had to look forward to was going back to work! Yes, I'm thankful to make money...but there was no one cheering me on as I approached the building!

I've been researching upcoming runs locally to participate in and think I've found some good ones...but I just found tonight this AWESOME one I want to do, but I want to get a team together to do it. The Dirty Dash: http://www.thedirtydash.com/default.aspx Does that not look like the funnest thing ever?! Though it's not local, I think the drive would be well worth it!

Anywho: as soon as I can "borrow" the race pics that were taken by others, if they aren't too horrible, I'll share them.

50:00 - HOORAY!!