Rocking and Rolling!

Well, last Saturday (June 25th) was the Rock and Roll Marathon!! I am proud to say that I finished the half marathon - and even did it faster than I anticipated. My official time was 2:14:20. Which averages out to about 10:15/mile. Not too shabby for my first half marathon - 13.1 miles is a long way to run! :)

Surprisingly, I actually even enjoyed the run!! I fully expected to get drained and exhausted half way through, but I had a great time and enjoyed listening to the bands, watching the other runners and seeing all the spectators cheering us on! I am even thinking about doing the race again next year! :)

Not much else is new with us. Just living our lives and trying to enjoy what each day brings us. Hudson has been talking a lot more the last couple weeks - some of his new/favorite words are: bye-bye, thank you, daddy, dad, doggy, mama, mom, uh oh, more (and he even started signing this even though I haven't been very consistent with teaching him signs), Maverick (we are probably the only ones that recognize this one though) ... and probably some more that I'm forgetting. It's so fun to watch him grow and learn every day - I love this little munchkin so much!! :)

Running Running Running

I haven't posted much about me lately, but most of my friends and family know that I started training for my first Half Marathon a few months ago. The race is quickly approaching and training is going ok (although exhausting with a 1 year old, working full time and trying to maintain my household and marriage!)

Last week I ran my first long race in preparation for the Rock and Roll 1/2 marathon. I ran the Seattle's Best 15k that started at Gas Works Park. It was a perfect long race for training - the course was flat and the scenery was beautiful. It really got me motivated and actually somewhat excited for the Rock and Roll race on June 25th!!

My goal was to finish the race (9.3 miles) with a pace of about 11 min/mile since I had never run this far before (my furthest training run prior to this was only 6.75 miles..) I exceeded this goal and finished the race with a pace of 9:44!! I didn't walk ONCE the entire race! Now only a few more weeks of training before the big day.. I'm getting kind of burnt out on running, so it will be nice to be done training and start doing some other activities instead once the race is over.

In case anyone cares .. here's my official standings from the race:
Bib #28 Suzie Bloom
Division: 25-29 Overall Place: 225 Division Place: 23/53 Sex Place: 96 Time: 1:30:46 Pace: 9:44