Provo City 1/2 Marathon
Today is race day- Provo City Half Marathon. We headed up the canyon at 5:45 to get to the starting line. It was a beautiful morning with the weather just a little chili but not bad. We ran a 2 mile warmup before the race. (Sorry my pictures are so big... I have it formatted for my blog and it will not transfer smaller to this one.)
Then we began our race... The 1st mile and a half was a steep downhill and I decided before the race started to take it very conservative! It is easy to run all out to take "advantage" of the downhill but knowing me and my racing... I knew I would be in trouble. My first mile was a 6:15... I felt great throughout most the race. I took a GU at mile 5 and that worked perfect for me.
As soon as we came out of the canyon I did have to battle the race mentally because it was a little over 5 miles of a straight shot to the finish... Mentally I held up pretty good until the mile 11 marker. I still felt good but my thoughts were starting to go more on the negative side. I think, for me, what was hard was seeing the finish line a mile and a half out. I held on and finally broke 1:20 in the half. I ran a 1:19.23 (from my watch) and took 1st in overall women. I won either $250 or $300 in cash and a watch (I was not able to stay for the awards because I had to run to the high school track meet at BYU. I did get a 2 mile cool down in... Running 17 miles total.
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