A week ago I ran my first race ever. I have been actively training since November. It was the 6.4 mile relay section of the Burlington marathon. At work we have had about 9 people running off and on and I have had good lunch time training partners. Someone had the idea of doing a relay team for the marathon and so three of us entered the lottery for this race and we got two teams accepted. It was good to have someone at work to run with during lunch breaks for the last couple of months but I did find that I was a little more hardcore about it like going in the rain and snow and cold.
On race day during leg one Steph and I stood by to watch the marathon start and Steph immediately commented as the race leaders were running by "It is only mile one and they already look like they are in pain". This reminded me to smile and have fun during the race. When it was my turn to run the third leg our team was running along with the ten minute mile section so since I was running faster I got to pass lots of people. I have decided that there was no better way to start learning how to race. I was happy and running fast and I ended up running faster then I had thought I was. The leg I had included one hill at the end which I sprinted up and was nice. I ended up running 6.4 miles in under 47 minutes.
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