Against my better judgment the spousal unit and I signed up for our second distance race. Last weekend we finished the Amercan Discovery Trail (ADT) Half Marathon here in Colorado Springs. This comes on the (sore) heals of the Colfax Half Marathon in Denver earlier this year. Our goal for Colfax was to finish, and we managed that. My goal for the ADT was to knock 20 minutes off my time, and lo and behold, I dropped more than 40 minutes. I still finished near the bottom of the pack, which should give an indication of my running prowess, but it’s amazing how much you can improve if you actually train.
Now the wife has her eyes on a full marathon for next year. What have gotten ourselves into???
The spousal entity and I (and a few friends) managed to limp across the finish line at the Colfax Half Marathon in Denver yesterday. I won’t say how we did, but we crossed the line with some of the best marathoners around. Okay, that’s probably because the half marathon and full marathon shared the last few hundred yards of the course.
