KC Marathon

I ran in the KC Marathon last weekend on a relay team. There were five of us and each of us ran a leg of the run. I ran the first leg, which was a 5K. I run a 5K three times a week so it sounded easy enough. What I did not plan on was a very steep/long hill at the end. Adrenaline and a few new songs of my ipod had me running fast the first 2 miles, but that really slowed me down. I still finished in a decent time. Our whole team did great! We finished 9th place out of 34 female relay teams. I walked from the end of my race all the way to the plaza to meet Paul & the boys at Panera. Then walked to Sunset Hills where he had to park due to the marathon all around the city.

I went home, showered, ate and then met my team members near the finish line. We ran the last part of the race with our last leg runner to finish as a team. It was a lot of fun!

This is part of our team. We were towards the end of the race waiting for our last runner. The girl on the left I went to High School with (Amy). The girl in the middle, Crystal, I met that morning. She was the 2nd leg runner.

Running with my team at the end

Finishing strong as a team!

The energy at a marathon is so much different than any race I've done before (only 5k and 4 mile races). It was exciting watching all the full marathon-ers finish. Some were hobbling and grimacing in pain as they finished to their supporters cheering. Pretty cool. Paul & I are planning on doing a 10K soon and then we are going to start training for a half marathon that we are going to run in April! Pretty crazy, but I know we can do it!