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    First half marathon

    Posts: 2,353 Member
    edited November 2024 in Success Stories
    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.

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    • Posts: 15 Member
      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!
    • Posts: 101 Member
      Great!! Congratulations!! :smile:
    • Posts: 2,353 Member
      thanks I may do a full at some point here. I think 15k is my favorite distance as a whole
    • Posts: 6 Member
      CONGRATULATIONS! And happy birthday! What a great gift to yourself!
    • Posts: 2,353 Member
      Thanks I am sore today but that is to be expected. Before yesterday I had never gone further than 12 miles at one time.
    • Posts: 321 Member
      Congratulations! That's awesome :)
    • Posts: 93 Member
      Incredible! What an achievement, you must feel so proud. Well done
    • Posts: 64 Member
      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
    • Posts: 97 Member
      This is amazing! Great work and congratulations!! Also, Happy Belated Birthday!
    • Posts: 219 Member
      Great job! That's awesome!
    • Posts: 131 Member
      Congrats and awesome job! I am planning my first half this year! Happy belated birthday!
    • Posts: 111 Member
      Awesome, I was in similar shoes (albeit much younger so my body is more forgiving!). You should be very proud of yourself.
    • Posts: 1,275 Member
      Lovely to read of your success :-)
    • Posts: 2,353 Member
      My time was doing a run/walk pattern. I Never outran myself. Thank you for all the encouragement.
    • Posts: 125 Member
      @jrline - what was your intervals setup? 3/1, 5/2 and was it by minutes or miles?
    • Posts: 880 Member
      WOW - great time. Congratulations
    • Posts: 2,353 Member
      @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.
    • Posts: 26 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 611 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 2,469 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 2,353 Member
      @pondee629 No I have not tried that I may get that part set up to try it
    • Posts: 11,233 Member
      congrats. that's a great time
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