So, as you might have surmised through my somewhat cryptic title, I learned a VERY important lesson this race: training matters, bronchitis (or any other thing that might sideline you towards the end of your training) does not (always). Now understand, this is not a blanket statement, and sometimes injuries, illness or other that might sideline your training CAN certainly affect your race performance. But what I learned was:
1. Don’t give up and throw away all of your training prior to the injury, illness, etc.
2. TRUST YOUR TRAINING!
Anyway, I deem this race a great SUCCESS! I was SOOOO nervous (as I had previously posted) due to being super sick the last month of training and thought my inital goal of a sub 1:30 was long gone. I was even nervous at the expo…so nervous that I wasn’t able to shop as usual! Oh the horrors!
But race day came, and while I woke up still somewhat weary and fearful of my pending performance…
The adrenaline started pumping, I pushed, and I pushed, and LOOK!
Honestly, I am proud. YAY! So here are some race pics and lil’ anecdotes…

Approaching City Hall means 6 miles in! Over halfway done! I was feeling strong!Here I am around mile 7 I think, still going strong!
LOVED THIS RACE! And after, I felt GREAT (another sign of proof that training matters)!!!! I even decided to take the pups out to Husb’s baseball game. And hey, what’s a blog post without my lil’ honeys!??!
OK, so if you ran Broad Street, do tell your story in the comments! I know some of my readers rocked it so please BRAG in the comments! Go YOU! Ok, toodles for now!
Great job!
Nice job! You killed my time. 🙂
Way to go on reaching your time goal! And by the way your hair looks killer in the race expo pic (and go Union!) 😉
Congrats!! That’s an awesome time. I bet you are feeling really good 🙂
Enjoy your recovery days!
You’re too cute! Thanks so much!