This very day, August 7 of the year 2010--I ran my first half-marathon! I finished in 2 hours and 19 minutes... and it was incredible. The night before I could hardly SLEEP I was so excited; even having recurring dreams of my family and oddly... my singles ward?... not accepting me because I didn't do well in the half marathon. I was so excited and anticipating and CRAZY that I woke up every few hours and imagined my alarm going off... Ah, well. Onto life lessons! (I'm pretty sure after waking up, when I walked into the lobb...)
1. Carbo-loading the day before a race is an excellent idea. In fact, you might find you enjoy it a lot!
2. Go to bed early the night before, even if you wake up every few hours and have dreams of people not accepting you (namely, your family and... old singles ward???) because you didn't do well in your half-marathon... and also dreams of your alarm clock going off.
3. Showing up in the lobby after such a night, and so excited, may provide an incessant series of a successive five minutes of chatter straight... that perhaps should have fit in ten minutes. This may also provide some entertainment for your coworkers running the race with you.
4. Apparently, some people are on time--and when you show up in the lobby with shoes, a purse, and other odds and ends at 4:28 am--everyone is ready. Who knew? :)
5. PapaGiki breakfast cookies are great pre race snacks. However, bananas in bags are not, as they have a nasty tendancy to divulge themselves over bag content.
6. Pictures, both before and after a half-marathon, are priceless. Not to mention--sometimes gross. :)
More lessons to come provided there is time... until then, feast your eyes on a couple pics for this one item off of a bucket list! 2:19 baby! :)
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Good for you Jen! I hope you know we'd accept you completely even if you had slept through your alarm and the whole race, and still eaten all the PapaGiki Cookies. :) You're a champ!!
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