Marathon!

I've been seriously running for about a year and a half. It has been fun, stressful, and everything else in between. Trying to keep to my eating routine and exercise goals. But it's been helpful having friends and groups where I have to be accountable. I've steadily increased my runs from 5k's to half marathons. I've hit 20 miles a couple times.

This past Sunday, I went for a run to hit 16 miles. At that mark, I felt great and ran 4 more miles. At 20, I was feeling okay and decided to try and finish it out.

Boy, those last six miles were the worst! Ever! I powered through and got my marathon length run in and felt extremely proud even though I had to drop my pace down during those six. My friends tell me that the last six are always grueling miles and but it can be done! Just hit your mark and keeping going.

It's been a couple days and I'm finally able to walk without too much pain, either! I'll be sticking to 13 - 20 miles for now.