My First Half Marathon

Little Back Story:

When I was working at NCOBS I started wishing I had more time to get into running.  Back at UGA I was mainly climbing, and in the winter all the snow made it kind of sketchy...  Come April though, I found myself in a (beautiful) temperate rainforest biome, and decided I'd try it out.

 

My first day in Skagway I ran 15 minutes, and every other day after that I just added 5 minutes.  I got sick early May, but after that I just kept increasing my distance until about a week before the race I ran 9 miles.  Not only did I run 9, but I also felt like I could have ran more after...

 

And in a week (6/8/13) there was the Skagway Half and Full Marathon...

 

So...

 

$15 later, I was signed up!

 

And after a week of tappering...

 

Race Day!

(feat the two runners from our company) 

And the starting line!

And we're off!

About 2 miles in we started to spread out

Much more spread out around mile 5

And after passing like my 10th person,
I was feeling pretty good!

And the half way point!
My original goal was just to run it period, but after I got to the half way point at 1:07:00, I figured there was a chance I could run it closer to 2:00:00.  I never really thought I would get under, but I just wanted to see how close I could get.

 

The beautiful views helped my motivation...
(beginning of uphill shown above)

My push was going pretty well until I hit the mile and a half long mild uphill at about mile 8. After I got through that the smile was gone, and by mile 10 I felt like I was running hills. 

On that note, running hills was a brilliant way to train, because when I felt that way I knew I just had to embrace the suck and keep pushing through.

  

And the finish line!
(I was haulin it, thus the tilt) 

In the end, I finished with a time of:

2:01:02.

 

STOKED!

 

I then proceeded to walk around for about 3 hours, congratulate my friend who ran the marathon, and recover!

 

 

WHAT'S NEXT

After race day I downloaded about 15 running podcast episodes, bought myself a new pair of trail-runners, and (after resting) have begun to train for a MARATHON!

 

More info on that to come.

 

ENJOY!
CHRIS

 



TRC Wrangle in the Triangle Bouldering Comp!

Well, comp is a little misleading, it was more like a giant bouldering party with prizes.  Enjoy!

Wrangle in the Triangle! 

Team belaying!  These guys were awesome! 

Looking for some problems to climb!


Now this is video from yesterday, but it was a competition problem that I worked on a lot so it's relevant!

My score sheet! 

(And I didn't get a huge amount of pics of peeps climbing or me climbing, but this is the end of the regular climbing.  Next is:

 DYNO Comp!  Waiting to dyno = nerve racking because everyone watches you!  And I didn't think I was very good... But...

I think I actually did pretty well!

And then the Finals!  There was a women's finals too, but I just didn't get very good video from them so I am just putting up the guys finals videos

PROBLEM 2


PROBLEM 3

This is what normally happens...


This guy was a BEAST!

And the Recreation Results!  Got Second!

Bling Bling!

And the raffle - but I was just grateful to have got the medal - so no worries about not getting any of the prizes.  PS3 would have been nice though... haha

Enjoy!
-Chris