Howdy all,
The first item for Triumphant Tuesday is that I am back on to the family website after a several month hiatus. The second item is that I survived the half marathon on Sat., Feb. 28th up in Fort Worth. My running friend and I usually do about 10 minute miles, so we were expecting the race to take us 2 hours and 11 minutes if we were consistant (doubtless this is a granny's pace compared to all the other runners in the family, but hey--slow and steady for this gal). Our first hurdle was the temperature: 37 degrees when we parked the car before the race started! The whole week had been in the 70s and then the night before the race this crazy cold front blew in. The second challenge was the hills in the course. We'd only trained here in our subdivision in flat Cedar Park, and the course description said there was ONE stretch uphill that was about 3/4 of a mile. ONE?! The entire 13 miles was uphill and down. Needless to say, I was sore for a few days in places I hadn't been sore during all our months of training. But, we did it in 2 hours 15 minutes--only 4 minutes off our goal. I got a good laugh when Darrell's sister asked him what place I came in . . .
