My First Marathon

I am almost 29 and in September I ran my first full marathon! I didn't run the entire time considering the fact that it was up the side of a mountain but I ran a lot of it and I am super proud of myself. I finished in just over 5.5 hrs. I'm not gonna lie...it was hard. I went through every emotion. At about mile 19 I started to cry, then I got mad, then I went back to weepy. I felt completely hopeless at the fact that I still had a good 6 miles. I thought I wanted to give up but of course couldn't. I wasn't going to run 21 miles and give up at the last 5. It took everything I had to run the last mile to the finish line, but I did. These pictures are from before we started. Hence the smiles :)


Part of the steep trail.


My sister Kim on the way in to the finish line.