I finished a 1/2 marathon today!!!!!

I will write all about the marathon later b/c I can barely type right now.  It went well, I ran the whole thing with 9 min. miles, and my finish time was 2 hours and 1 minute.  I unfortunately decided to go to El Torito happy hour on Friday night and got food poisoning.  Totally sucked and I can’t believe I was even able to run.  I don’t even remember Sat. b/c I could not even stand up w/o intense stomach cramps and yesterday was the first day since Friday that I was able to eat or drink.  Yesterday, I tried to eat and drink as much as my stomach could handle but I could tell during the race that I was really dehydrated.  I know it really affected my time.  I have never ran that long of a distance before, 13.1 miles, but it wasn’t really too hard until mile 12 and then my legs became so stiff I thought they would just collapse beneath me.  Chris and my Mom were there and that really helped me get through the race.  They cheered for me and they both woke up at 4:30am so that was special. 

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