HALF MARATHON
Today was a day full of accomplishment. Number one: I started Gilmore Girls and have never felt so cultured and number two: I completed my first half marathon. Last year I decided I wanted to run a half marathon and so me and my friend Lacie Spangler decided to sign up for one and today I completed it. It was on Saturday so I slept over at Jack and Kelsey's the night before and we ordered pizza and made no-bake cookies. I hadn't seen my Jack that day because we had work and then Ben's bachelor party so it was a fun weekend spent with them.
I woke up early in the morning on Saturday so we could get on the buses to go to the starting line. We ended up meeting up with a friend of ours from high school that was also running the race, her name is Shelby. It was a cold morning and everyone was all huddled around the bonfires they had made. It was fun to get to know people and feel all of the excited energy.
We were all lined up at the start and I felt such excitement, it was definitely a surreal moment running with everyone that wants to accomplish the same goal. Its really easy to stay motivated because I had so much support all around me and it was fun to run with Shelby and Lacie.
The scenery was really pretty running down Provo Canyon and I feel like the first 9 miles were really easy because of that but once I reached the final 5 miles down University Avenue it definitely was difficult, but I finished at 2 hours and 14 minutes.
As I was running I had some thoughts going through my mind, some parables to life I think I'd like to call them. The race ended right by the Provo City Center temple and there is the final 4 or so miles where I could see the temple and the finish line and sometimes it honestly felt so far away. I would be motivated to finish but then sometimes my stamina would get the best of me. And I think that is what life is sometimes. Sometimes life is like the canyon, fast and easy. Everything seems to have an ease and light about it...but then we get to those stretches of life that feel long, tiring, and overwhelming. We can maybe see the finish line and we know what it looks like...but it feels untouchable.
All I kept thinking about in my race was I just needed to get to the temple and then I could walk, then I could rest. And I started to tear up because THAT is what life really is...it is to do what we can to just make it. Then to finish it off there was my cute husband, my cute eternal family at the finish line.
I woke up early in the morning on Saturday so we could get on the buses to go to the starting line. We ended up meeting up with a friend of ours from high school that was also running the race, her name is Shelby. It was a cold morning and everyone was all huddled around the bonfires they had made. It was fun to get to know people and feel all of the excited energy.
We were all lined up at the start and I felt such excitement, it was definitely a surreal moment running with everyone that wants to accomplish the same goal. Its really easy to stay motivated because I had so much support all around me and it was fun to run with Shelby and Lacie.
The scenery was really pretty running down Provo Canyon and I feel like the first 9 miles were really easy because of that but once I reached the final 5 miles down University Avenue it definitely was difficult, but I finished at 2 hours and 14 minutes.
As I was running I had some thoughts going through my mind, some parables to life I think I'd like to call them. The race ended right by the Provo City Center temple and there is the final 4 or so miles where I could see the temple and the finish line and sometimes it honestly felt so far away. I would be motivated to finish but then sometimes my stamina would get the best of me. And I think that is what life is sometimes. Sometimes life is like the canyon, fast and easy. Everything seems to have an ease and light about it...but then we get to those stretches of life that feel long, tiring, and overwhelming. We can maybe see the finish line and we know what it looks like...but it feels untouchable.
All I kept thinking about in my race was I just needed to get to the temple and then I could walk, then I could rest. And I started to tear up because THAT is what life really is...it is to do what we can to just make it. Then to finish it off there was my cute husband, my cute eternal family at the finish line.
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