smileyfootjamie
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I successfully completed my first half marathon last night with a time of 2:00:38!!!
I had a blast and loved every minute of it! Aside from practically dying during the last few miles. ;) But running through the STRIP and NIGHT was spectacular. There were SO many people (44k) - it was just a...
SIX more days untin RnR Vegas. My first half! I am SOOOO excited and slightly terrified. I'm not scared of running 13 miles... I'm scared of being mobbed by 44,00 people and unimaginable chaos!
Anyway. :) I'm wearing my older pair of vibrams, Jayas, because I've found that my form detiriorates...
My feet definitely need some work when it comes to hot pavement. I can tolerate the heat (we actually had a contest at the lake to see who could stand barefoot in the hot sand for the longest time) but I'm afraid of actually burning myself. Mostly I''m just concerned about pavement because I...
I have hardly ran or hiked at all since my 8k. I miss it and feel like I should have made it a priority, but I'm a swimmer above all else so I've just been swimming a lot. Been so busy with schoolwork, finals, ACTs, SATs, APs, plus all my extracurriculars: 4-h and meetings, getting a new lamb...
I ran my first 8k this morning and it was SO much fun! Wrote about it and pictures here:http://stuckoutsidethebox.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/my-first-ever-8k-race/
The past couple weeks I've been running mostly in my new(ish) vibrams (jaya model) and I am in love. Of course it isn't as fun as going barefoot, but sometimes I just want to RUN and not worry about chipsealed roads or getting goatheads in my feet. To put it simply sometimes I am just lazy...
After the amazing weather we had all week (mid to high 70s), last night it snowed! I'm not a fan of cold weather but once the snow melted it was gorgeously cloudy and wet outside and the first thing on my mind was PUDDLES!!! =) I headed out for a run wearing my vibrams for the fist time. I set...
I think it's funny when people are skeptical of me running barefoot. Most people that ask me about it are like "oh, that's pretty cool." But then a lesser few of them look at me like I'm insane and just go "ohhhhhKAY then." One kind of rolled her eyes.
Why is there this preconceived notion that...
Yay!!!!!!! *celebrating*
Okay I had to get that out.
I'm am just super-duper excited that I actually ran a race barefoot!
This morning I ran the Nun Run 5k. Since I had never run the course before, I started out running in socks (don't care if they get ruined - I have way too many) because I...
A few weeks ago I was running down in town, when less than half a mile into my run (I was running in the dirt on the side of the road) a police cruiser pulls up behind me and two scary-looking cops get out. After they had determined I was not dead, dying, or being chased by some crazy rapist...