Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Half Marathon the morning after Zach's sister got married! YIKES!

It's true! I ran a half marathon!!! Holy Crap! I finally did it. This has been a goal of mine for quit sometime and I finally accomplished it. I didn't train too well, but I made it. (I walked mile 12... but ran the other 12.1 miles) My good friend Hilary flew here form Utah to run with me and thank goodness she did! That's a long time to run by myself! And Zach ran the first few miles with us... unfortunately we didn't take ANY pictures and only have the ones you have to buy if you don't want their ads on it. LOL

Also, maybe the half marathon would have been easier had we not stayed up late the night before at Dana's wedding, and then had to wake up at 4 something...

Hilary and I saw the cameras so we made a scene to make sure we were noticed. HAHA
Yes, we were jogging, I know... it looks like both of my feet are on the ground at the same time. But nope, I'm just that slow!
So this picture is definitaly of Hilary but you can see me behind her finishing! YAY! Zach finished like 30 minutes before us... I'm really bummed we didn't take the time to get a picture of the three of us at the finish line :(
Afterwards we went to the lake with Zach's family for a picnic... so we grabbed a photo there. And Hilary actually visited for a few days, and we really don't have much to show for that either. Bummer. I really need to get better at that!

3 comments:

Kirsta 'n co. said...

Anyone who voluntarily runs further than the car to the ice cream shop is officially my hero, since that's as far as I will ever make it. And you did it with a smile on your face! (at least for those cameras...)

Ashley May said...

Natalie! You never told me that you did this!! Congrats!!!!

Elaine said...

Hey Natalie! That's so awesome you did a half!!!! I've always wanted to do one but I haven't run for a while so I need to get on that....

Your husband looks really familiar.....but I can't pinpoint from where. School perhaps? Didn't you say something about BYUI once?