Sun and Surf 1/2 Marathon!

This weekend was the Sun and Surf Marathon and Half Marathon in Huntington Beach. I have been training with a group called Team in Training which is an organization that raises money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. My Dad had also been training for this race. It was both of our first Half's and we were very excited to be running it in such a beautiful place. It was really incredible to run with such a large number of people. I think we figured there were about 20,000 people doing either the Full, Half, or 5K. There were about 11,000 doing the Half.

Dad in front of all the mile markers

Logan with Daddy at the beach

Logan all ready to cheer Mommy and Papa on!

Before the race at the start

Mile 1 - Feeling Good!

Mile 13 - Dad feeling GREAT! Katie draggin a little . . . But I never stopped!

Papa, Katie, and Logan after the race!

Papa and Logan

With our medals! WE DID IT!

So I can tell you it was an incredible expereince and I will definitely be doing it again and someday do a full marathon. However I will have to figure out how to get back to a nice training schedule because I was not 100% ready for this one and that is not how I want to run these races. Miles 1-10 were pretty good and then I hit the wall. Thankfully my Dad stuck with me. We never stopped running if you want to call it running. :) I think walkers were passing me. J/K. Dad is in great shape and could have easily left me in the dust but he didn't. I am so proud of my Dad! He did awesome! Thanks for doing this with me. :)

So here's to my Dad, Jeremy, and Myself! We have all completed our first Half Marathons and will hopefully get a few more under our belts. Jeremy led it off last year by completing this same race!