Well, after a restless night of tossing and turning, getting little sleep, when the alarm went off this morning at 6:50 am I was ready to RUN!
And what an experience it was and I’m so glad that I was a part of the 24th Annual Vancouver Sun Run!
Phil and I headed out to my office to meet up with my team around 8:00 am and we're off to get into our race positions shortly before 9:00 am. The only bummer to the race was that Phil and I were not even close to meeting up with Stacey, who had P’s timing chip and race bib. So Phil, being the super stellar man that he is, chose to run the race with out his timing chip or bib in order to keep a very nervous and psyched out Erin together.
All together now - Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
So with the aid of a trusty digital watch, we joined the 57,000 other runners and took off around 9:20 am.
Needless to say, with that amount of people running all together its easy to keep a nice, slow pace and not burn out right off the start.
We managed to run full out for the first 10 minutes and then I needed to walk to get ride of the side stitch that reared its ugly head, reminding me that I never take enough time to stretch.
After that was sorted out it was back to running and thanks to Daft Punk Alive 2007, I was able to keep a great pace for the next 4 km. We both took another walk break when getting over the Burrard St Bridge, as it was after a hill, and then it was back to business.
The last 1.5 km were hard, sore hip, numb baby toes and legs feeling like lead we a few of the ailments I was facing, but it didn’t stop me from sprinting to the finish line! From what we gathered, via P’s watch, we crossed the line 71 minutes after we started. That is a full 19 minutes FASTER than I had aimed for!!! I was dumbfounded that I managed to make it in such a great time.
It was amazing feeling to pass that line and to have Phil beside me was even more amazing. We hugged it out, caught our breath and made our way over to the chip drop off.
Overall it was an amazing experience and I am so stoked to have been a part of it, no matter how worked up I was over the whole thing.
The next question is … will I do this again next year??.
2 comments:
HOOOOORAAAAAAAAAY! Awesome post, dude! We're so happy for ya!
Oh Erin, I'm so happy for you! Sounds like you challenged yourself and you really surprised yoruself! You're capable of so much and you don't even know it, grrl! Rawk on!!
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