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Showing posts with label surf city half marathon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label surf city half marathon. Show all posts
Monday, October 10, 2011
Run for Mobility
The Surf City Marathon and Half Marathon, which I'm participating in on February 5, 2012, partners with an organization called Run for Mobility. This organization raises money to provide wheelchairs to people all over the world. Use my link to donate to this great cause!
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Half Marathon
Today was the half marathon. This is probably worthy of a lengthy post about the people I saw, how I felt, and the overall experience, but for some strange reason I'm pretty tired! ;-)
It was pretty cool though. It was amazing to accomplish 13.1 miles when my previous farthest distance was only 10 miles last week.
Yesterday, I signed up for the Surf City Half Marathon on February 5th and the OC Marathon on May 6th. I'm going for the Beach Cities Challenge medal!
My dad signed up for the Surf City half also, and I think Mat is going to also. It will be a family affair!
And now it's off to sleep. Good night!
It was pretty cool though. It was amazing to accomplish 13.1 miles when my previous farthest distance was only 10 miles last week.
Yesterday, I signed up for the Surf City Half Marathon on February 5th and the OC Marathon on May 6th. I'm going for the Beach Cities Challenge medal!
My dad signed up for the Surf City half also, and I think Mat is going to also. It will be a family affair!
And now it's off to sleep. Good night!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Beach Cities Challenge
I read about this back when signing up for the Long Beach half marathon, and I ran across it again tonight. The Beach Cities Challenge involves running any combination of half or full marathons in Long Beach, Huntington Beach (Surf City half/full), and the OC half/full. You get a special Beach Cities Challenge Medal if you do all three consecutively, starting with any of the three. That means that after I run the LB half this Sunday, if I run the Surf City (probably the half) on February 5th (happy 1 year of being engaged!) and the OC (possibly the full?) on May 6th, I'll get the cool medal.
I'm strongly considering it. Yes, it costs money, but it still costs far less than ballet, even when you factor in clothes and replacing your shoes. And, I've come to LOVE running. Yeah, some mornings at 4:30 I'm not really in the mood, but that always goes away and is more often the result of it being a work day than it being 4:30 in the morning.
It would be such an accomplishment - complete 2 halfs and a full (or maybe 3 halfs depending on how things go) less than a year after starting to run.
The final of the three, on May 6th, is more than 6 weeks before our wedding, so if God forbid I get injured at least I'll have time to heal before walking down the aisle. :)
I think I'll wait until Sunday to decide. Early registration for the OC Marathon ends tomorrow, but they will also be offering it at their booth at LB on Sunday. That's the one I would try for the full in if I'm going to try a full, but I can't just decide that on a whim. Training for a half has been totally manageable, and even though I would do another half before this full, training for a full requires a ton more time and morning runs would not be as easy.
I'll have to think about it.
But it would be so damn cool.
I'm strongly considering it. Yes, it costs money, but it still costs far less than ballet, even when you factor in clothes and replacing your shoes. And, I've come to LOVE running. Yeah, some mornings at 4:30 I'm not really in the mood, but that always goes away and is more often the result of it being a work day than it being 4:30 in the morning.
It would be such an accomplishment - complete 2 halfs and a full (or maybe 3 halfs depending on how things go) less than a year after starting to run.
The final of the three, on May 6th, is more than 6 weeks before our wedding, so if God forbid I get injured at least I'll have time to heal before walking down the aisle. :)
I think I'll wait until Sunday to decide. Early registration for the OC Marathon ends tomorrow, but they will also be offering it at their booth at LB on Sunday. That's the one I would try for the full in if I'm going to try a full, but I can't just decide that on a whim. Training for a half has been totally manageable, and even though I would do another half before this full, training for a full requires a ton more time and morning runs would not be as easy.
I'll have to think about it.
But it would be so damn cool.
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