Get Lucky Half Marathon Race Recap

Another chilly race is in the books! On Saturday I completed half marathon number four. Spoiler alert: I missed a PR by 36 seconds with my finish time of 2:30:02. Despite the cold and windy conditions and missing my PR, it was still a fun race!

On Friday night we continued our pre-race ritual of dinner at Pazzaluna in St. Paul. I had the chicken piccata with risotto, and it was so delicious.

My mom was in town for a visit, and we both got our hair done on Friday :) We stayed at the Doubletree the night before the race with Tasha and Anna; we appreciated the free warm cookies on demand!

Saturday morning we were up at 7 to get ready! Tasha made our awesome tutus for the race. 

My first time dressing up for a race, it was fun except our tutus kept getting stuck to each other!

We were glad to walk from our hotel to the start line a few blocks away just minutes before the 8:30 start. It was around 18 degrees when we started out, and windy! The wind was actually at our backs until the turnaround at mile 7, after that it was a brutally cold headwind the whole way! I was proud of myself for running the whole way, other than slowing briefly for water/powerade 3 times. I didn't even have to walk up the big hill at mile

10 (where I had to walk during both Women Rock and Monster Dash).

Our finish (Tasha finished about 10-11 minutes before us).

Two cold races so far this year! I stole this cute picture from Anna's Facebook :)

Two days later, my right knee is still hurting. I hope I recover quickly so I can jump into training for my next race, the Lonestar Half Marathon in Luckenbach, TX! At least I can count on that one to be warm!

Update: here are the splits from my Garmin, just for fun and because I finally uploaded my activities to Garmin Connect:

Split	Time	Distance	Avg Pace
Summary	2:30:05.5	13.60	11:02
1	10:55.8	1.00	10:56
2	10:46.5	1.00	10:47
3	10:53.2	1.00	10:53
4	10:53.4	1.00	10:53
5	10:50.3	1.00	10:50
6	11:01.9	1.00	11:02
7	10:54.1	1.00	10:54
8	11:03.5	1.00	11:04
9	11:05.6	1.00	11:06
10	11:02.0	1.00	11:02
11	11:21.4	1.00	11:21
12	11:43.0	1.00	11:43
13	11:16.6	1.00	11:17
14	6:18.2	0.60	10:29