Hot Chocolate 15K- My first DNF
DNF- DID NOT FINISH. The Hot Chocolate 15K was possibly the most frustrating run I've done. I went knowing I wasn't ready and that I couldn't keep the required pace but everyone told me I'd do better than I thought. I was NOT prepared!! I was doing OK until we hit the hill. Literally from mile 1.5 to mile 5 is all up hill. This hill is so bad my friend who has completed the Boston Marathon said he was worried about Heart break hill. Every book I've read talks about this hill. He said he was preparing for it knowing it was somewhere between mile 20 and 21. Then some guy congratulated him on making it to the top of heart break hill and he said he didn't even notice it. I was shocked!! Then asked if I'd did the Hot Chocolate 15K. When I said yes he said the hill in that is 10x worse than heart attack hill. O_O At mile 2 I could see the police car opening up the road and I knew this wasn't good.
I knew there were a group of people behind me so I felt as long as I keep them behind me I should be fine. As we were coming up the last bit of the hill many people were already heading back down and lots were saying encouraging words to me and I was like, thats nice and strange. We get almost to mile 5 and they turned me around early cutting almost 2 miles off of my run, meaning I DNF. I started taking deep breaths as I turned around because I could feel the lump in my throat. Then I noticed that no one was behind me anymore. People where encouraging me because I was the end of the line, dead last. The people that had been behind me must have been picked up cause there was only the police. I then started sobbing between breaths. I decided I could not accept the medal at the end. I was not feeling well and my arms where numb and tingly.
9.6 Mile Training Run
While this was not an event it was a very memorable run for me. This was the longest training run I did before my half. And my husband rode his bike behind me as my support crew.
This is the first time my hubby really got to see how miserable I am while running. LOL!! I deal with so much pain for the first 3 miles that it makes me question my whole thought process about just doing shorter runs in 2016. I don't find my groove until around mile 4. This is the run where I earned my 15K charm I had purchased for myself for the Hot Chocolate.
This is what all my training was for, I was terrified. Disneyland is my happy place. The place where hubby says as soon as we enter our hotel he can see all the muscles in my body relax. This felt very different cause while my body and mind wanted to realx and enjoy the happiest place on earth as we always do, there was a big dark 13.1 mile wide cloud over my head. The link in the title will take you to my long very detailed post about the Half Marathon. But I finished it on my own two feet and can and forever say I completed a Half Marathon! And you better believe I wore that big medal all over the park that day!
This was my first 5K with my Niece and Loki. I was thinking back to the previous Run A Muk and how much pain I was in. This was my first run since my half in May and it didn't feel like that big of a deal. I mean it wasn't easy after sitting on my butt for 3 months and I walked 95% of. But it was like hay there's mile 1, mile 2 and yay mile 3. I guess that is what a half will do to you, makes you feel like 3.1 miles and one hour walk is nothing at all. I compared my time last year when I truly did my best to run 50% of the time and I was only 2 mins slower this year than last and I walked the whole thing! WTHeck!?!?!
Not a run but the very next week I broke my finger and everything physical stopped. I had already been taking it real easy since May, like doing nothing. But now I was forced to do nothing! Almost 4 months have passed and my finger still isn't straight but it is doing better. Now onto 2016 where my running plans are very different from last years. See ya on the other side.
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