25k

On May 14, Matt and I ran/walked 15.5 miles or 25k!

All went well and we finished...at times we weren't sure we would finish as I stopped running and started walking at the 9 mile mark. I have been having ongoing IT band issues and it again reared it's ugly head. I sent Matt on ahead because he didn't need to have as slow a time as I did. However, I caught back up to him at mile 11. Apparently he had run the mile after he left me quite quickly which caused his foot to hurt...in the end, he had a stress fracture. So...we walked miles 11 to 15 together and ran the last 1/2 mile to the finish line! It wasn't the way I wanted it to go, but I/we finished!!!!!!!

Here we are after we got back home...Renee (on the far left) is our next door neighbor and Kristen (in the grey) is a good friend! What is also pretty amazing is that about 10 people from our church also ran the 25k - Renee and Kristen being two of them!

So, will I do it again? Yep, I hope to do it again next year and run the whole thing therefore getting a better time:) This years time was 3 hours and 24 min....shouldn't be hard to beat:)