Big Sur International Marathon

[xwacky]

Yay!  I did 9 Miler today!

I timed a little over 1 hour and 57 minutes, or roughly 13 minutes per mile.

Pretty lousy actually.  But I'm happy I finished it.  And under 2 hours (I thought it was going to take me at least 3).

My knee was injured couple of months ago while skiing.  I didn't even think I'd be able to do this.  But I did it, and now I feel good!

Marathon next year?!

Comments

[o-yannik.livejournal.com]

Wow, Xie, CONGRATULATIONS! And with an injured knee? You must really like that running thing, huh? ;) How did Andy do this year, did he start as well?

[xwacky.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, my knee is killing me right now, and my body is quite sore. Because of the injury, I had to stop training all together. So I was NOT prepared for this physically. I'm a lousy 281 place overall, and 185 place for females.

Andy did 5K again this year. He didn't train beforehand either. It took him over 43 minutes, but he placed 18th for his division (Male 8-11). :b

[silwyna.livejournal.com]

Congratulations again, X :o) That's awesome!!! I'm proud of you and of Andy as well :)

[asta77.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS! I'm very impressed. I'm still recovering from my hike in the woods. ;p

[helen-c.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I can barely run for 30 minutes, so color me impressed! ;)

[xwacky.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so dead right now. Everything hurts! It didn't seem to affect Andy that much though. ::sigh::

[xwacky.livejournal.com]

Hee, thanks! Happy that you stopped by. ;)

Believe me, I was so out of shape that I had a really hard time doing it. I thought I was never going to reach the halfway mark (we were doing a loop)!

It's times like this I'm soooo impressed with Jamie's marathon record. :b I can't even imagine how he could run 26+ miles in under 3 hours! To give the perspective, the winner for this year's Big Sur was just under 2 and half hours! No wonder Jamie quit running Marathons altogether -- he already achieved an impossible goal for an amateur runner!

As for me, I'm kinda pumped to do a marathon next year. My goal is to finish it under 6 hours. But right now, I'm really hurting...

[xwacky.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

Running would be a bit streching though. What I did was walking uphill, "running" downhill, and trying to run on flat surface! :b

Anyway, I'm so *dead* the past couple of days, I could barely functioning.