13.1

For Mother's Day, I gave myself the gift of health and endurance.  I ran 13.1 miles (on Saturday May 7th).
It was amazing.  My dear friend Angie trained, and ran the race with me.  She is a rock star.  I swear that woman never gets tired.  She was full of energy the entire race, which was great for me because I had someone to keep up with, and ended up finishing the race over a minute faster per mile than we trained for.  I expected to finish in about 2 hours 40 minutes (i'm slow), and instead my end time was 2:14!  It felt great. 

The course was amazing, it ran through all the cool parts of Columbus click here if you're interested.

So here's what I learned for the next race:
Don't drink a lot of water 1 hour before the race
Go potty twice
My bladder isn't as strong as it once was

lol yes, I may have had a small uncontrollable trickle during the last few miles of the race.  My only goal was to run the whole way, and stopping at one of the porta potties did not fit into reaching that goal.  
I ran my hardest, I have no regrets or if onlys.