First half marathon

jrline

I completed my first half marathon yesterday with a time of 2:03:48 on my 41st birthday. If someone had told me on my 38th birthday(when I was 250lbs) I would run a half marathon in three years I would have said shut the F up. Never stop trying and doing new things.

SoFLpeg

Congratulations! And now, I know you can do your first marathon, should you have the desire. I know because a year after my first half, I did a full and now have a second coming up in 3 weeks (and I am old enough to be your mom).

You are awesome!

mad_strawberry

Great!! Congratulations!!

jrline

thanks I may do a full at some point here. I think 15k is my favorite distance as a whole

MissPhalange

CONGRATULATIONS! And happy birthday! What a great gift to yourself!

jrline

Thanks I am sore today but that is to be expected. Before yesterday I had never gone further than 12 miles at one time.

hmrambling

Congratulations! That's awesome

GreatCthulhu

Incredible! What an achievement, you must feel so proud. Well done

nkovacs1954

Outstanding! My wife and I are registered and have begin training for the half marathon in Yellowstone NP...She will run it, I'll jog and walk....can't wait

courtneybrooke27

This is amazing! Great work and congratulations!! Also, Happy Belated Birthday!

csk0018

Great job! That's awesome!

paulanthony9596

Congrats and awesome job! I am planning my first half this year! Happy belated birthday!

jhall260

Awesome, I was in similar shoes (albeit much younger so my body is more forgiving!). You should be very proud of yourself.

MrsMizart

Lovely to read of your success :-)

jrline

My time was doing a run/walk pattern. I Never outran myself. Thank you for all the encouragement.

shopewell70

@jrline - what was your intervals setup? 3/1, 5/2 and was it by minutes or miles?

kgb6days

WOW - great time. Congratulations

jrline

@shopewell70 I do not have an exact alternate pattern. I do have a Garmin watch and I look at it to see where my pace is I look at it as well as how I feel.

a_j_paterson

Congrats on doing the half. My first one I did by mistake!! I had just completed a 10K, and my mate just signed me up for the half. Without the extra training it hurt sooooo much. After that though I signed up for a marathon for the next year. Lots of training this time, and now I just love running.

JenHuedy

nkovacs1954 wrote: »

Outstanding! My wife and I are registered and have begin training for the half marathon in Yellowstone NP...She will run it, I'll jog and walk....can't wait

I signed up for that one, too!!! It was supposed to be my first half at age 43, but I got laid off right after I signed up. I just got a new job and I don't know if I'll be able to take the time off to run or if I'll have to cancel.

Whether or not I ever run a half, every time I go for a run I get such a great feeling because I am doing something I never thought I'd be able to do. And I keep doing it because I never want to lose that feeling.

pondee629

jrline wrote: »

@shopewell70 I do not have an exact alternate pattern. I do have a Garmin watch and I look at it to see where my pace is I look at it as well as how I feel.

Have you tried Garmin Connect? It will transfer your run data from your watch to their site and give you a map, splits, running time, save your runs in a spread sheet for review, keep track of your record of runs plus adding in other exercises/activities. I use it mostly for the record and split review.