Recap of Surf City half marathon

Due to my hamstring difficulties I decided a couple weeks, before the half marathon that I wouldn't be running this half marathon at PR pace, therefore I would try to help my husband PR instead. This will be his 3rd half marathon. His first half marathon was Seattle Rock n' Roll in June of 2014, we ran it together as it was to be our RUNcation, however he surprised me at the finish line by proposing! Our finishing time there was 2:16, and since then he's been wanting that sub 2 hour. My husband's half marathon #2 was last year at Long Beach, but it didn't go exactly as planned, so I was really rooting for him on this one.

My college coach, Coach Foote, once told me to go for it each race because you never know when it will be your last. The way I saw it, if I did not run this race, I would never get to see what I was capable of at that moment in time and under those current circumstances.

But it really was a question as I have become much smarter when it comes to injuries keeping my long term goals in mind. After the Expo, I knew my hamstring would make it, I hadn't ran in almost two weeks, so my worry now was keeping up with my husband. As the race started it took me a couple miles to relax and know I my leg was good. miles 3-7 I felt like I could let myself fly again. Mile 6ish was when my husband started having difficulties. Needless to say that second half of the race was long....the temperature rose, and the sun was in our face the last 5 miles, and yet my husband kept at it with a walk/run rhythm not giving up. We finished in 2:24, not his best time, but not his worst, and finished with plenty of depleted calories to fill with pizza while watching the Superbowl.

I slept 11 hours that night, I had not done marathon sleeping like that in a long time. I was exhausted and my wonderful husband took care of me as I iced and recovered....somehow I thought it would have been the other way around.. I woke up with a super sore left quad, as it was the leg that probably did most the work while I compensated for my weaker right hamstring that had been giving me so many problems.

It is now 3 days post half marathon and I have been on the elliptical allowing the soreness in both legs go away as I assess the hamstring, but tomorrow I go for a run. I am still holding on to my OC goals, yet tomorrows run may have a lot of input in the training for these next 79 days. In trying to stay positive I have even looked up a couple races to possibly do in between now and OC on May 1st. So far all that's on the schedule is Ragnar. I am thinking of possibly adding the La Habra 10k and the Mt. Sac 5k as speed workouts....but I guess I shouldn't get ahead of myself and wait to see how tomorrow goes.