White Rock

Here it is...

We've been busy and haven't had internet at home so I was late in posting this. We finished the White Rock 1/2 Marathon! We also raised over $3,000 for the LLS and our TNT Chapter raised over $200,000.00 just from this race. As an added bonus our entry fees went to the Dallas Scottish Rite Children's Hospital. The race raised over $1,000,000 for the hospital (double last year's amount).

There were over 25,000 runners from all over the world, this was an Olympic qualifier as well as a qualifier for the Boston Marathon. It took over 34 minutes from the starting gun until we crossed the Starting Line! Our time was 3 hrs. 22 minutes and 13 seconds (3:22:13= an average of almost 4 mph). That is a fast walk and a Personal Record (PR)... actually any time would have been our record since this was our first Half Marathon.

The race was amazing, all the training paid off and we were able to not only finish but finish with a smile on our face! Thanks to Coaches David, Meg and Jessica, they were great at preparing us and keeping us from injury.

The conditions were brutal, nearly Freezing Rain the entire race, some runners reported ice crystals forming on their clothing. We weren't cold as long as we were racing but we did get extremely cold once we headed back to the hotel.

One amazing bit of marathon trivia... they have tens of thousands of bananas at the finish area and every single one of them was perfectly ripe!!!

We are continuing our training and plan to participate in the Ft. Worth, Cowtown Full Marathon on 2/25/11. That's 26.2 miles!!!  

WOW...We are endurance athletes (we even now qualify to put the 13.1 sticker on our car).