Sharing a Personal Success

It is done! After training for almost 6 months, this past Sunday I accomplished one of my life goals: to complete a marathon before I was 40.

I ran the Duke City Marathon yesterday with the true goal of completing it, and a hopeful goal of completing it in under 4:30 hours.

I completed it in 4:28.02. Even with training for the last 6 months, it was tough the last 6 miles, just as everyone who has done this had promised. However, I think the worst part I was that my husband, who supported my through most of the race, had parked the truck about 1/3 mile away and I had to walk to it after running for 26.2 miles! Sometimes you feel that you can’t just do anymore, but you do.

A colleague of mine who has run many marathons, including Boston three times and Chicago last week in 3:10 said I looked much better than she did last week. That was nice of her. I feel pretty good today – just a little bit of soreness and glad to have a banister on the stairs at home.

Will there be another? Highly unlikely, but who knows? It was just something to check off the list.

See the full results here: https://www.runraceresults.com/secure/raceresults.cfm?id=rcls2008