I did it..... Oh Crap.

Two years ago I was on pace to run one of the biggest races of my life. I was going to run a Half Marathon. Not just any Half marathon but the Army Half Marathon. Now if you are not familiar with the Army Run it is a great run put on by the Canadian Army and the proceeds go to programs to help wounded Soldiers and their families. 

Anyways 2 years ago I was training hard and buggered up my back. I was sidelined and was worried that I was not going to run the race. After almost a month off of all exercise I was able to see a Dr who told me it was a deep muscle pull and to take some Robaxacet. I did and within 2 days I was back to normal. I was behind and knew I needed to get my ass in gear and run. 

I started off with a slow 5k and ran every day. Sometimes adding a km to each day Sundays were my long days and I would run 12 km the first Sunday and the second Sunday I ran 18 km with Smiley as my water pack mule. I ran 10 km's every day until Friday before my race and that was my taper time. 3 days should be good.

Sunday came and I was in awww with the crowd, the tanks, the runners, the everything. It was cold. I was in shorts and my Prescott Pacers shirt and I was pumped to run. I started running with Joe and we ran for the first 10 km's pretty good. He left and I kept running. At km 15 I started to get tired and the cheer of the cadets really boosted my moral.

I ran harder and was set to break my goal of a 2:40 finish when BAM, I hit that wall like a brick truck. I started to walk, I had to pee and was just busting at the seams. I ran into the Port-A-Potties and as I exited my legs were heavy. I didn't want to go but I knew I had to. I started running again, slowly but I was running. I came around the corner and there was Joe waiting for me. it was km 19. He told me that this was the time to dig deep and run. I did. I ran my ass off and well I crossed the finish line far better than I thought I would. 2:30:27.0

Since then I have had a love hate relationship with running. I love to get out but I have hurt myself a week after running the half. I tore the muscles in my calf andsoon after found out that I have arthritis in my left knee. I pretty much gave up on running. But I still try, I still want to run, I still gave it what I could and today I did something I was not sure if I should or could do again. Today I signed up for the Half Marathon. 

Now it's time to train and set a new goal. This goal is to run this years Army Half Marathon in 2:20:00 or better. Now it is time to train and earn my 2014 Army Run Shirt and redo this picture.