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l anthem was played and we all made our way to the base of the bridge we started promptly at 8 am the full marathoners also started but 13 1 miles farther back i love that concept because i knew that enetually the leaders of that race would zoom by me waiting to begin is so exciting one thing i read about this race was how flat it was that appealed to me it was very clear that the only hill would be the bridge itself i must say that it wasn t that bad plus it was a beautiful structure and the view at 8 am was so pretty the bridge was two miles long give or take one mile up one mile down good morning from the mississippi river i literally ran over it as an arkansan transplanted to mississippi nearly twelve years ago i must point out one observation i love my new state but i must say that mississippi waits a while to welcome you with signs like the one below arkansas however welcomes you the second you enter the state after all it s god s country ha i d never pass up the chance to photograph a port a potty and mississippi together roughly five miles after the bridge we ran along a highway it was basically flat and boring however the water stops were plentiful and everyone was so nice next we turned off into a residential area the houses were really spread out i e the residents had acreage i kept thinking of how nice it probably was to live there also at this point the winner of the full marathon zoomed past me it was exciting another guy was not far behind him my favorite part of the course came next we went into a gated community that reminded me of the old south the homes weren t incredibly old but the streets were tree lined and it felt regal some of the water stops there were offering food like fruit cookies etc i love this type of street once i left this area i had around three miles to go chump change at that point and even before then i equated the remaining distance to a run in my area for example six miles was a long morning of speedwork four miles was a typical morning of speedwork i swear running is 90 mental the trick is to keep your mind right thinking ugh i have six miles to go is not good for anyone i prefer i only have six miles to go mindset i tell ya two miles equated to the end of my neighborhood and back easy peasy that said i d be remiss if i didn t learn that something one of my experienced bus mates had told us to be true once you turn onto washington avenue at mile 12 5 i d swear that finish line kept getting farther and farther away six tenths of a mile seemed to be about a hundred blocks away but you could see it what a dirty trick lol i finally made it and i was so proud for showing up gutting it out and not letting myself down i have another race in the books and i ll have a good base for marathon training in a few weeks you gotta love a half marathon the training is easier obviously they don t take quite as long and the recovery is much easier i love to do a half every once in a while it s a treat as i told my non runner friend though it s still an effort and any distance is hard in the moment i can stress myself out way more over a 5k than a full marathon it may sound crazy but it s my truth ah finished at the expo i was able to get pizza and a drink they had other fare too i was focused on getting home asap after all i had a slow scenic drive ahead of me one of the perks of a race with less than 600 entrants was being able to park so close to the finish line even after just a half this girl was getting sore you can see the finish line from my car bliss i got in my car and barely made it to clarksdale mississippi before i felt like i had to stop and take a cat nap i literally laid my seat back and napped in a mcdonald s parking lot for nearly an hour i ve never had to do that after a race before however only once before have i driven home a few hours immediately after running i was younger then lol my beautiful medal isn t it gorgeous i made it home and eventually slept like the dead i am happy to report that i did not get any blisters while i definitely chafed it was not the kind that makes you scream in the shower that s a huge win i was really sore yesterday but today i am a ok that s also the perk of a half marathon like i said before i am so happy i ended up doing this race the director and the volunteers executed it beautifully i feel accomplished and happy that s especially good for me as a working mom it s so easy to get wrapped up in the necessary day to do tasks i often put myself on the back burner this was an opportunity for me to accomplish something that had nothing to do with work or family and it felt great posted by susan at 8 29 pm no comments monday october 21 2019 detroit free press tcf bank marathon on sunday i was finally able to run the detroit free press tcf bank marathon it has been a bucket list race for me for many years after finally getting back to running about a year ago i knew it was high time to check michigan off my 50 states quest to be completely honest this was not the easiest race to train for because of the timeline being that it takes place in october one must begin training in july it was miserably hot and humid for the vast majority of my training season in fact i had a genuine pity party about two weeks into it i felt that i simply could not train in such conditions even though i have certainly done it before it made me really assess what i truly wanted i had to dig deep if i was going to make it happen even then it wasn t the easiest of training seasons many runs did not happen the ones that did were not stellar i was lucky to make it to 18 or 20 miles tops the only shining victory was the fact that i grew to loathe speedwork less that s huge for this girl for twelve weeks i doubted my ability to run this race i regretted purchasing my airline ticket i waited until it was too late to secure lodging unless i was a rockefeller i thought i was too slow and heavy to run this race the kicker for me was logic if i deferred to 2020 2021 or even longer this race would always require me to train through july august and septmber i e it was never going to be any better i might as well make a go of it however my confidence was shot and i had as much self doubt as any three people combined i kept my plans under wraps for fear of public failure i only discussed this race and my plans with the people i speak with every single day i referred to it as my secret marathon as fearful as i was i boarded a plane on saturday for all of my fourteen prvious marathons i was excited this was a whole new ballgame for me fear has never been my middle name until now the expo was large and motivational i went to the expo and felt like a fake i expressed my concerns to one gentleman and he said just do what you can do and run a smart race is there more any of us can do of course i had to snap a photo in front of the flag of denmark since our current excnahge student is from there seeing the finisher s medal up close was excellent would i earn one the question was what drives you to run my answer is on the white paper like i said i waited until less than two weeks out to try to get a hotel room when that plan obviously failed i reached out to my friend molly she hosted me back in 2011 when i had an overnight layover in detroit she didn t hesitate for a second she even arranged for us to stay at her dad s home since he was as easy drive from the course i unloaded all of my race swag on my bed in her dad s home not only did sweet molly host me but she also let me be her plus one at a pre race dinner that night we went to a gorgeous home in the area and were treated to a scrumptious home cooked meal check out my awesome friend and that incredible view i sat among molly and fourteen new friends it was so cool i slept decently that night naturally i woke up at least three times though it s my norm my alarm finally went off at 5 15 am est that s 4 15 am for my body and i tiptoed out of the house around 5 45 am my reserved parking spot ended up being 1 1 miles from the start it was no big deal though due to the energy of the morning i got into my corral and thought well what will be will be i prayed a lot about this race i prayed the week before the night before the morning of and even during the race have you ever prayed while running you should we started before the sun rose that was new for me once my corral crossed the start line something unprecedented happened i got a little emotional after all i was finally doing this particular race everyone had way more confidence in me than i did in myself i think i literally felt their positive vibes as i started running i didn t even take a walk break for quite a while i was amazed i was feeling very good out there it was flat as a pancake cool and breezy that s a southerner s dream before i knew it we were to head up the ramp to the ambassador bridge to windsor ontario i just couldn t believe that i was going to do it the bridge was one of the three inclines along the course i m literally on a bridge that separates two countries the good news about an incline of a bridge is that it must come back down on the other side i hustled down it into canada canada eh we were required to run with our passports no one was stopped at the border to my knowledge yep that s canada they were blaring sweet caroline as i passed the entrance we ran several miles in windsor ontario it culminated with running down into the windsor tunnel back to the usa not only was it downhill until the middle but obviously it gave me the opportunity to lay claim to running under the water how cool it was cool and rather lively running in the tunnel of course at the midpoint we had to run up to the land that was the second incline of the day getting out of the tunnel was a long awaited much anticipated victory for me you see they had to open the tunnel up to traffic at a certain time if anyone wasn t out by then they would be asked to leave the course i did it i beat the cutoff after a little more time in downtown the half marathoners turned off to finish their race that is always a somber moment for me you can hear their finish line hooplah yet you still have another 13 1 miles to go it was ok though because this day was unlike any other i finally took my own advice and tried to truly run the mile i was in the miles went by quickly and i was feeling good yes i was actually feeling good what the what not only was i concentrating on the individual miles but i was also focusing on taking one gu every three miles that broke up the entire distance into smaller increments for me soon we went to my favorite part of the course indian village it s a neighborhood of gorgeous historic homes i could have stayed in there all day i was thoroughly enjoying viewing the homes and the fall foliage unlike mississippi michigan is actually getting a fall season this year somewhere past the halfway mark my lower left back started to hurt i wondered if it was a kidney i asked a medic what she thought she thought it was possible but most likely just a muscular issue the astonishing thing was that the only thing hurting was that again i ask you what the what mile 17 is always special to me because it means i only have single digits left to go in the teens my thought was wow the next thing i know i ll be to mile 20 then 20 came and i was looking forward to 21 because i could take another gu there was always a little victory to be had this was truly the race of the positive attitude having only one thing hurting also helped tremdously in the past everything has hurt by mile 20 if not sooner just five miles to go i couldn t believe that i was feeling so alive hadn t hit the wall and was still happy that can only be attributed to the power of prayer even going up the third and final incline of the day into belle isle was a good experience i will admit that after belle isle and the riverfront area with no spectators i was quite ready to be done it was mile 24 or so meaning i had taken my last gu so my little victories were waning thin my mind knew that two more miles were nothing but my body was ready to be at the finish line already this is the point of the race when frankly ms positive isn t so nice anymore it was the final countdown so to speak then it was a mile and a half then just a mile then a half a mile then just a few more downtown blocks to turn through i finally asked a lady in an exasperated way where is it only a fool would not know that i was referring to the finish line she happily replied just around the corner thanks goodness there it was the finish line it was still there it hadn t been disassembled already there were spectators the announcer photographers and most importantly volunteers handing out medals when i was within close enough proximity to break into a run i got emotional yet again i was doing it i had done it no sweeper van no dying muscles no defeated attitude finish 15 was steps away i did it it was the best marathon of my 40 s for sure i called my husband and let him know that i was done what a relief all that worrying had affected so many areas of my life and now the burden was completely lifted this marathon did not get the better of me onward and upward the 1 1 mile walk back to my rental car was more like a crawl it didn t matter though because i was on top of the world i did it i did it there ya go it s my first international race i got back to molly s dad s home and got cleaned up we went to one of her childhood favorites national coney island for lunch she remarked how i sounded really good when i voice messaged her near the end of the race what can i say it was my day sweet molly and i i have such a good taste in my mouth about detroit molly gave me a tour of beautiful lakefront areas i met such nice people and my faith and confidence in my running has been restored that s more than i could have dreamed would happen even a day later i couldn t be happer posted by susan at 11 02 pm no comments sunday june 02 2019 navy ten nautical miler today chasen and i completed the navy ten nautical miler around and on the naval base in millington tennessee as always i will tell you why i chose to do this race simply put it is local and has an awesome medal as such it was a bucket list race for me once chasen caught wind of it he decided to join me i really enjoy getting to do races with him because the race begins at 6 am yawn we opted to drive up yesterday to the expo i did not want to run the risk of being late today and not being able to get my bib etc it s about an hour away and one never knows how morning traffic will be we were both quite pleased with the race swag those are a lot of goodies today we got up at 3 30 am double yawn oh the things i do for running we had to leave at 4 30 am and i wanted to eat and make sure my oatmeal had time to settle then a minor miracle happened we actually left a few minutes before 4 30 i am an early bird when i have 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