Ouch! But GOOD NEWS!

My quads are screaming at me still after those hills on Saturday! So I went into my Max Cardio Fit Test like this:

But I finished like this:

Not as good of a max out time as I would have liked, but I pushed play and I tried!

OH MY GOSH! I knew I had a PR on Saturday, but the official times came out today... and instead of the 30 seconds or so that I thought I had?!? Try over 1 min 30 seconds! BOOM! Totally had to share here. 

Run Hard Half Marathon DONE!

Oh the hills, and hills, and hills! But you know what? We did it!

See that up there? That's the elevation map that my Garmin made while I was running. Holy Hills! Thank goodness my friends Nancy and Kim were cheering us on about mile 11. I am not sure why but mile 11 always seems to be my wall. 

My overall average pace was a little slower than I would have liked (I aim for under 14 minute miles) but considering the hills, I am not complaining. 

Kim took this picture of Lisa and I attacking the hill. I was so happy to see them, and extra happy to get this picture on my time line this morning. :-) 

There is no better feeling after a race than seeing this pop up on your Garmin. Fastest HALF means Personal Record! ;-) I know that there are people who ran the full yesterday in less time than it took me to do the half. But you know what? I don't care I am getting faster each and every time I do one and that is all I care about. 

Lisa and I post race. 

Backwards look at our medals. ;-) Stairs hurt today or I'd go take a regular picture for you all. 

The wonderful Team RWB group of runners from yesterday. At least 4 of these wonderful people ran the full. And then some of us went out to dinner last night to celebrate. 

Day Sixty One Results

OK this is a little scary, but I've been sharing all along so I might as well share this. Here it is, my day sixty-one weigh in. Not quite as good as my other weigh ins, but not too bad considering I didn't do a Max 30 workout in 12 days, and hadn't met my step goal in 10 days. 

Total weight loss in 61 days 11 pounds. Plus 5 inches. 

I'm pretty proud of myself and my hard work and it is paying off! 

I can't wait to see what the next 54 days have in store (since I'm on day 4 of round two, and didn't really complete round one).

I'm going to start a challenge group on Facebook if anyone is interested in starting this journey with me, just send me a message. 

I went downtown tonight to pick up my race packet for tomorrow's half marathon and then went and had appetizers with Stefanie. There was a beautiful sunset. The colors were amazing.

Flat Patty is ready to run tomorrow! If you are in the Columbia area come downtown about 10-10:30 and cheer us onto the finish! ;-) We might be slow but we get the job done!