A Second Half Marathon and a PR!

IIf you've been following me on my running journey then you know I've been plagued by injury after injury this year...a fractured fibula just 3 weeks before the Woodlands Half Marathon (that I ran on anyway) then severe cellulitis right after the MS150. It's been a rough year but I am finally {knock on wood} all healed up!! 

I spent the last month prepping for The Wounded Warrior Half Marathon in Dallas with hopes that I would get a better time than my 2:40 time on my first half with the fracture. 

It was myself and 2 of my MRTT co-leaders from our chapter running it together. These ladies have really become great friends and I was so excited to share this experience with them. It was also a FIRST half for one of them. 

We drove up to Dallas the night before and all had dinner together before heading to bed early. Our race time was set for 6:45am...Little did we know that the skies were going up open up just as we were scheduled to get going. It was POURING down rain along with thunder, lightning and lots of wind. The only plus side was that it kept the temperatures down in the low 70's instead of over 100°. 

They finally cleared us to start an hour after originally planned once the lightning moved out. It was still sprinkling but it felt amazing! 

Along the course there was plenty of water, hills, mud, wind and rain but we kept on chugging and ended up finishing in 2:31:50. I was very happy with that PR considering my shoes were about 5 pounds heavier from running through the river at mile 10. 

All in all it was a great race and one that I would do again next year.