Many of you know that I've been training for the Chicago Half Marathon. Over the last few months I have run a few 5k races in the Chicago area and have been doing as much running, biking, and strength training as possible to train for it. I was doing really well at first but then the last few weeks of training I kind of slacked off a little bit so I wasn't sure how it was going to go. The half marathon (13.1 miles) was this past Sunday in downtown Chicago. It also happened to be the rainiest weekend on record in Chicago with 10 inches of rainfall. It rained the entire race so it was somewhat miserable, but I finished and beat my goal time. I had hoped to run it in 2 hours and 10 minutes and my actual time was 2 hrs. 4 mins. and 31 secs. so I was really happy with that. Unfortunately because the weather was so bad Hannah wasn't able to get pictures so I am going to be ordering some that were taken by a company at different points along the race. I will put those up when we get them. I hope to run the Indy Mini-marathon in May and my long term goal is to train for the Chicago Marathon (26.2 miles) next October!
Randy
Friday, September 19, 2008
My First Half Marathon
Posted by Hannah Riggs at 7:58 AM
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How awesome, Randy!
We're proud of you and your endurance in surpassing your goal!
Way to go, Randy!! To bad we don't live closer, Paul would love a running partner. Love you both!!
Running has been a Kurtz family hobby for quite some time now. We love the Indy half marathon! It's so rewarding to cross that finish line and realize what you've just accomplished! Congrats on completing your first one!
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