Fresno 1/2 Marathon

So at the beginning of November, I went out to good ole Fres-yes to run the Fresno 1/2 Marathon with my parents. On the day of the race, I was 16 weeks pregnant and slightly nervous because Fresno is much warmer than the 30-40* weather I'd been training in. My NYC BFF Julie came out to cheer us on as well. We also drove a woman in my home ward as well. Jessica is awesome and was in the top 10 of our age group. I finished pretty low in my age group, but I was carrying another human and yeah, I think that's a good enough excuse.

Here we are before the race. Making sure to use those port-a-potty's!

Julie took a pic of us going across the starting line. Can you spy mom and me?

Then there were the event photographers. Clearly I just swiped the photos instead of paying for them, cause I'm classy like that.

There's a baby in there!

I stayed with mom the first 2/3 miles and then went ahead, my pace is just slightly faster than hers, but I was only ever a minute ahead of her. And in the last 2 miles she kept me going because I thought I was going to die. I should have had a second gu around mile 10 and for some silly reason I thought I'd just push through to the end no problems. That was a bad idea, especially when it's not just you in your body. But I survived and so did baby.

Julie got us coming up on the last quarter mile stretch. This is me pretending like I'm not about to pass out.

Photo op with Julie while mom ran away and totally beat me.

Then we found the daddy-man. Who did awesome in his age group. I hope that I can be as active as my parents when I'm their age!

They gave us these medals and that was that.

Now that it's been about a month, I think I'd like to run another one. Maybe one half marathon a year to keep me motivated with the running. And next time I'm going to remember to take a gu at mile 10!