{"id":3894,"date":"2011-10-17T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3894"},"modified":"2011-10-17T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:30:27","slug":"columbus-half-marathon-2011-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3894","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Half Marathon 2011 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wlWriterHeaderFooter\" style=\"float: none; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 4px 0px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 450px; height: 80px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/widgets\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3894\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Commit. Train. Believe. Achieve<\/strong>.\u00a0 Fitting that this is the official motto for the race that I just PR\u2019d in!<\/p>\n<p>I DID IT!\u00a0 Shiny new PR (personal record) for me!\u00a0 I finished the race in 1:57:31 yesterday \u2013 my previous PR was 2:01:22 in the same race in 2009.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think I have ever been as nervous about a race as I was this one.\u00a0 I knew that I had put the work in with my training, but would it all pay off?<\/p>\n<p>Prerace picture taken by my friend, Sue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/photo-7-478x640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"photo (7) (478x640)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/photo-7-478x640_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"photo (7) (478x640)\" width=\"183\" height=\"244\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the plastic trash bag?\u00a0 That helped keep me warm until we started \u2013 the wind was a little too much comfort before the sun rose.<\/p>\n<p>17,000 runners signed up to run the full &amp; half marathons.\u00a0 Truly amazing.\u00a0 The race began with fireworks lighting up the dark sky.\u00a0 The energy was contagious!\u00a0 There were points during this race that I really doubted myself \u2013 mile 11 was a tough one.\u00a0 I began to realize at this point that coming in under 2 hours was going to happen as long as I kept my current pace (right around 9 min\/mile) and nothing catastrophic happened.\u00a0 I felt like I was going to puke.\u00a0 I was so nervous!\u00a0 I started to chant to myself \u201cI can do this\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019ve got this\u201d for the next half mile or so.\u00a0 I needed to distract my mind from the numbers and just focus on putting one foot in front of the other.\u00a0 The bands on the course (100 bands over 26.2 miles) were awesome and did a fantastic job of distracting me.\u00a0 The crowd support was the best I have seen at a race \u2013 and seeing many friends &amp; fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trainwithmit.com\/\">MIT<\/a> runners running was a fantastic boost!\u00a0 I don\u2019t think there was a point in time where there weren\u2019t people lined up along the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The last half mile of the race is uphill to start and then you head downhill to the finish line.\u00a0 When you are running up that hill you are cursing the course designers, only to pick up the pace &amp; fly to the finish line. Below you can see the back of me picking up the pace!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/racingfinish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"racingfinish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/racingfinish_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"racingfinish\" width=\"437\" height=\"307\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How I placed<\/strong>:<br \/>\n2616 out of 9924 total half runners<br \/>\n1004 out of 6184 Females<br \/>\n148 out of 903 Females in the F3539 Age Group<\/p>\n<p>After the race:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/016-640x427.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"016 (640x427)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/016-640x427_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"016 (640x427)\" width=\"429\" height=\"296\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT banner \u2013 So cool that they had all of our names listed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/014-640x427.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"014 (640x427)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/014-640x427_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"014 (640x427)\" width=\"435\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We headed home where Aaron made an amazing gluten-free recovery brunch \u2013 turkey bacon, potatoes, eggs &amp; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodforlife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Food for Life<\/a> English muffin!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/019-640x427.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"019 (640x427)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/019-640x427_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"019 (640x427)\" width=\"439\" height=\"303\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly I don\u2019t feel too bad today.\u00a0 My feet feel better than I thought they would, especially since my plantar fasciitis was really acting up in my right foot between miles 7-9.\u00a0 My legs are sore, as in I can tell I pushed it, but that is a good sore.\u00a0 I really believe that the strength training &amp; yoga that I have been focusing on has paid off.\u00a0 My legs are so much stronger than they were just 6 months ago when I ran the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3247\" target=\"_blank\">Cap City Half<\/a>.\u00a0 The physical therapy I did in the spring to strengthen my hips &amp; glutes is what jump started my quest to find a strength training program that worked for me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to my family &#8211; without your support, this would NOT be possible!! \u00a0I love you all!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjsbrewhouse.com\/menus\/gluten-menu-options\" target=\"_blank\">menu<\/a> plan will be up later today.\u00a0 Trying to play catch up now!\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/wlEmoticon-smile1.png\" alt=\"Smile\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #dd8484; font-family: 'Segoe Script'; font-size: x-large;\">Kim<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=3894\"><\/div>\n<script><!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_div_class=\"linkwithin_hook\";\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 135270;\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commit. Train. Believe. Achieve.\u00a0 Fitting that this is the official motto for the race that I just PR\u2019d in! 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