So I did it. I ran 13.1 miles on Sunday to complete my first half marathon. I came in a respectable 5913th place (out of 17033 half marathoners). My time was 2 hours, 13 minutes for a pace of 10:13 per mile, which was pretty much what I was aiming for. I'm not really a runner by nature (in fact I usually kind of hate it) but I was talked into this by my buddy Ian and we trained together for the past three months and somehow managed to stay motivated. The race was awesome, running with 30000 people and being cheered on by random strangers. I'm positive I will never, ever run a full marathon but I will probably let myself get talked into another half sometime down the road.
