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ts time 4 57 07 overall place 583 888 female place 254 426 age group place 47 68 fun fact this is exactly 44 seconds slower than my last marathon at least i am consistent the bling i got the special edition for sporting my half fanatic gear posted by tiffany at 6 29 pm 3 comments 26 march 2013 st paddy run tacoma recap i will start this off by saying training for a marathon is time consuming i have had to eliminate a few things from my life in the last two months and blogging and reading for fun have taken the hardest hits although i have plenty of time to play candy crush it seems anyways i have been diligently training for my marathon coming up on may 5th and last friday i actually popped over 300 miles of running for the year i will be trying to get a blog or two up about some of my actual training but for now i wanted to let you know how my half marathon went our tech shirts each year they add a character to the shirt design i did manage to fit a race into this training cycle last weekend on march 16th i ran the st paddy day half marathon in tacoma i registered way back on opening day using a volunteer credit i earned so basically this race was free for me i also registered will for it as one of his christmas presents haha merry christmas now go run and many local friends were running it as well this was my first race ever as a new runner in 2010 and i have run the 5k the last three years this was the first year they added the half marathon to the line up devan made me this little collage i tattoo d myself up for the race race morning alyssa arrived at our house around 7am since her boyfriend paul offered to watch the kids for us since we were suddenly without a babysitter friday afternoon very brave and awesome of him he stayed at the house and the three of us headed down to the start line about 10 minutes away i had 3 race packets to deliver and i like to be a bit early so we can get organized parking was easy i found zoe quickly and gave her 2 of the packets and chatted for a few minutes then we set off to find steve which wasn t too difficult since he is so tall found lots of friends took a quick stop in the honey bucket decided to check my stuff in at the coat check area and then stood there in the cold waiting for the race to start will and alyssa went to put their stuff in the car then will handed me the keys to hold i really didn t have a ton of pockets so i dashed to the coat check and by the time i got back the racers were all lined up and i could not find my friends they had disappeared into the crowd dang it i was bummed i didn t get to tell will good luck my little good luck charm i have worn the last 3 year s to the race it is for my missing runner buddy cynthia who loves butterflies i lined up just behind the 2 10 pacer my ultimate goal was to finish under 2 10 so i figured that would be a good place to start the first mile is pretty fast since it is a downhill slope after about 5 minutes i caught a glimpse of alyssa s sparkle skirt ahead of me so i sped up to catch her we ran together the rest of the race so i am glad i found her so quickly i passed the 2 10 pacer to catch alyssa and we never saw him again the rest of the race there was a turn around with an out and back after mile 1 so i did see will also and give him a high five as we passed which made me feel better the miles just ticked by pretty quickly after that my foot started falling asleep so i stopped quickly at the first water stop to loosen my laces on my left foot which helped i took a gel around mile 6 just before heading up the huge hill towards pearl street at the end of ruston way mile 1 9 15 downhill found alyssa warming up mile 2 9 17 uphill found will and gave a high five mile 3 9 30 getting into the groove my foot is falling asleep mile 4 9 53 over the overpass quick water stop and loosen my laces mile 5 9 24 flat waterfront foot comes back to life mile 6 9 33 take energy gel water stop rain starts dreading the big hill mile 7 10 20 the big hill rain stops it also started raining about that time it rained for about 3 minutes and it kind of felt good since i was warm the weather was pretty awesome overall the temperature was mild there was a bit of wind and the rain held off except for those couple of minutes back to the hill we jogged walked jogged up that thing then headed off into the hilly neighborhood in ruston i was thinking it must be flat now before every turn only to face another hill ugh finally we were heading back down the massive hill onto the waterfront the lovely flat waterfront i took one more gel one last cup of water and was ready to finish this race over the overpass then up schuster parkway knowing the final mile is all uphill was mentally tough i caught sight of steve after the overpass and in my mind i was hoping to pass him it gave me a focus and something to think about besides being tired finally in the last half mile as we were running up the hill we passed him a quick moment of walking to catch our breath near the top of the hill and then we headed into the finish line that hill is pure evil done mile 8 10 01 more hills with each turn head back down big hill water stop mile 9 9 31 aaaahhhh the flat waterfront again mile 10 9 31 water stop take a gel mile 11 9 47 over the overpass again catch sight of steve mile 12 9 51 just running to catch steve and finish the race tired legs mile 13 10 09 the uphill finish pass steve then cross the line done just after finishing still a little dazed i think this is my favorite medal ever it even stands up on its own so you can display it genius we grabbed our amazing finisher medal s and some water then chatted with steve for a few minutes he races nearly every single weekend and recently earned his marathon maniac status we met last year when he ran ragnar with us and i have seen him at a couple of races since then defiance 30k and seattle half we found paul who had brought the kids down to the race for us so i could relieve him of his child watching duties then we waited for will to finish i figured he would be in around 2 30 and sure enough right at 2 29 he came up the hill for his big finish i was glad we could get a few pictures of him because literally 30 seconds before he finished a gust of wind knocked over several things including the photographer s stuff no finish photo for him interestingly enough this happened at the high speed pursuit race in boise last year the timing equipment was blown over just before he finished will coming up to the finish after that monster hill so proud of this guy he just finished his 4th half marathon overall this was a fun race and i would do it again for sure it is hilly but hello it is tacoma can t avoid hills around here i wasn t sure what to expect for my finish time i have been intentionally running at a slower pace for marathon training i am pretty happy with my 2 06 05 finish time that is an average pace of 9 37 which is about a full minute faster per mile than i have been training at for my long runs thanks tacoma city marathon association for another fantastic race posted by tiffany at 11 19 am 2 comments 25 january 2013 warm enough but not too hot i have been meaning to sit and write out a blog for over a month now and since i am procrastinating on heading out for my 13 mile training run i figure now is a great time to catch back up i finished out 2012 with 850 miles of running which i was pretty happy with considering i never set a specific goal i am now onto my 4th year as a runner and i am finding it harder and harder to remember a time in my life where i didn t run several times each week it is just something i do now without really thinking about it i was out on my long run last weekend and i got to thinking about how normal it is for me to go on a long run every weekend and then i thought about how most people think that is far from normal how running 10 or more miles on a saturday morning in 27 degree temperatures is actually weird to some people but it has been part of my week for several years now and it seems perfectly normal to me as i sit and ponder how many layers i need to be warm enough but not too hot as i head out the door so what are my grand plans moving forward into 2013 well currently i am signed up for the st paddy s day half marathon in tacoma on march 16th last year i placed 4th in my age group in the 5k after training really hard using the run less run faster training guide it also was freezing cold and slightly snowing on race day hope that doesn t happen again i love this race because the start line is about 10 minutes from my house and it has a fun holiday theme will and alyssa are signed up to run the half with me and i know there are a few other friends signed up as well for the other distances are you signed up tell me tell me thinking about running your first 5k this is a great one in fact it was my first race ever way back in 2010 jaime me and cynthia st paddy day 5k run 2010 our first race ever and there was sunshine hoping for that again this year i may have also decided to attempt the m word again yes it is true i signed up for the tacoma city marathon on may 5th aaaahhhhh it will be nearly 2 years between marathons for me i think i am ready well not yet but on may 5th i had better be ready i decided to use the finish it plan from the book train like a mother you can buy your own copy here from amazon or check out some information from sarah and dimity here at another mother runner i just love these two ladies i have met them a couple of times and they are just amazing i listen to their podcast when i run on the treadmill and i own both of their books i follow them on twitter and on facebook they just make me laugh and offer tons of encouragement and advice to their fellow mother runners ok enough about my complete obsession with sarah and dimity moving on the book i am using for my training plan the training plan i am following is 20 weeks long i didn t realize that until i did the math but i was a couple of weeks behind so i jumped in at week 3 of the training plan and am currently finishing up week 6 it has been going really well so far it took me a couple of weeks to really build up my training base again since i really slacked off the last couple of months but i am going to hit a 100 mile month for january and i feel great i am hoping to blog 2 3 times a week so that i can look back on my marathon training and see what i did and how my training was anyone else out there training for a marathon which one i decided on a local one this time because it is so much easier and cheaper in many ways i just hope that on race day i am not bored running the same roads that i trained on i will find out soon enough this is what my workout plan looks like i am about to head out the door for the 13 mile long run in week 6 i will do a training update on monday i better hit the pavement before i lose my motivation the good news is that it is 42 degrees out and not raining but that could change any second so i need to go figure out my layers with the ultimate goal of being warm enough but not too hot happy running posted by tiffany at 10 31 am 5 comments 15 december 2012 santa runs tacoma 2012 race recap the family ready to run i love local fun races this is my third year running the santa runs tacoma 5k and this year my whole family decided to join in of course i had to get creative with our costumes and luckily everyone was a good sport about it this race doesn t give out shirts or medals instead you get a stocking hat and gloves i think this years gloves are the best so far and the hat is really cute also which is awesome last year s hat was a bit too small even though it was cute and the gloves were scratchy you do have the option to purchase a shirt if you want one i personally do not need another cotton shirt to wear as pajamas lol our race packet goodies hat and fleece gloves our race bibs so race morning we got ourselves up and organized and out the door by 8 05am or so the plan was 7 45am but with 4 people getting ready and 2 of them being kids that was the best we could do it was cold outside about 37 degrees or so but the rain was holding off and i was hoping it would stay that way until the race was over it did one is naughty one is nice we parked down on pacific avenue and jogged our way down to the starting area to warm ourselves up about 1 2 a mile away i quickly spotted mel from www tallmomontherun com and went over to give her a hug and say hi we found some other friends and tried to stay warm waiting for the race to start the 10k started around 8 40am and then we lined up for our 9am start time we were soon joined by alyssa www therandomnessofalyssa blogspot com paul meredith kallie brian rydar zoe www runzoerun com and her daughter as well as alma www averagewomanrunner blogspot com and a couple of her friends quite a large group of friends but so great to know so many people out on the course and i know there were many more that i didn t list mel and i before the race devan me and mel waiting in the potty line the gun went off and we were shuffling towards the timing mats and then we were off and running it was a bit crowded in the beginning but we were able to keep together easily enough we made it up the initial hill without any problems and settled into a comfortable pace for the kids i didn t wear my garmin because there really wasn t a point i wanted to have fun not stress about what time it was at the halfway point niko was wanting to take lots of walking breaks which was fine with me but devan was annoyed and wanted to keep running so i asked will if he minded that we went ahead and he said no so off we went devan kept a nice steady pace and i told her if she needed to walk to let me know we took maybe 3 walk breaks for about 15 20 seconds each and soon enough we were at the final little hill before heading down to the finish line cheesy smile for the camera my elf hubby we stopped and had our timing chip removed and grabbed a banana bottle of water and a chocolate milk before walking down to watch for will and niko to finish we cheered on a few friends that finished right behind us and then will and niko came through niko didn t look too happy i think he had gotten a bit too cold in the last mile oops should have dressed him in one more layer i guess but he finished and once he warmed up and had some chocolate milk he was as good as new we stood around and chatted for a few minutes and then made the trek back to our car it was freezing cold and raining for our walk back but i couldn t complain because the kids were with me and i had to pretend it was not that bad but it was cold and my hands and face were frozen and i was really happy to be back at our car alyssa meredith and i a tall elf and a short santa if you are interested in running a race for the first time and want to have fun i highly recommend finding a local themed race these are less competitive an...