Last year a few friends from high school and one from college signed up for the Lake Sammamish Half Marathon. They wanted me to join them but I felt it was tiny bit too early after having Bo. This year I was excited about it and signed up as soon as I could. When I signed up I also thought it wouldn't conflict with the boy's basketball. Unfortunately it did. I ended up missing Brody's game but still made it to Colts.
Four friends from high school and one from college also ran in this year's race. We planned on meeting before the race but I didn't have my phone with me so it as partly lucky that we found each other. I didn't find Kara & Jamin but they both found me later in the race.
Pre-race picture. It was a beautiful morning but it was VERY cold waiting for the start.
Haley, Kari, Me, Devon
I felt great for most of the race. My feet were slightly frozen at the beginning but they warmed up quickly. I was keeping a pretty good pace while still feeling good. At mile 12 I started to feel a little more sluggish but this was also when the course started to get annoying. We had one mile left and they had us running crazy loops at the parking lot. I would have preferred to do that at the beginning.
Overall this was the best I have felt after any 1/2 marathon (i've only done 4) and it was also my fastest.
After photo.
We did not plan it this way but we are in the exact same order as our before picture.
Kara, me, Haley, Devon
(Kari hadn't finished yet)
Even though I didn't run with any of them it was still fun to see them before and after the race. Now I have to decide what I'm going to do next.
My official time was 1:46:40. I had an average pace of 8:08.
Unfortunately it doesn't beat my sister's best time.
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