The Blacks

{St. George Marathon}....I usually don't post real personal stuff on my blog, because of the whole private who reads what blogs and so forth, however since I use this blog for a journal, I guess I can put whatever I want to on it RIGHT....so here, goes St. George Marathon (or any marathon) for that matter is one of the most mentally tough things you can do. This year was hard for me, because I had pneumonia the first part of the summer and decided that the I was out for the marathon. Middle part of August I started feeling pretty good and decided that I still had a few weeks left to train, so once again decided that I wanted to do it. During this time one of my sisters was still training and planning on running so I was stoked, 2 weeks later started getting a pain in my heel that hurt so bad I had to limp out of bed in the mornings, once again I found myself a little bit frustrated because it was getting closer to the day. I eventually started getting some relief from my heel so the group of girls decided to run a 20 miler down the canyon, it was so awesome but I ended up hurting my toe on this run and was in major pain for about 2 weeks, ran the canyon half-marathon on my hurt toe and ended up being in a bad way for the marathon. However, since I had already made up my mind to run nothing was going to stop me and so here we are to Oct. 1, 2011 (MARATHON DAY). Nervous, because I had never gone into a marathon knowingly with an injury. We boarded the bus, anticipation huge, people everywhere some their first time not knowing what to expect, me knowing the pure amazing hell that I was about to experience. The starting line of the marathon is amazing 1000's of people everywhere waiting for the big moment when the horn finally blows. My little sis and I started off together and she rocked her first marathon, I was so proud of her and she pulled me through the last 5 miles when every step I took felt like I was stepping on nails. The weather was super hot and it was so hard, but even though I ran my slowest time I am so glad that I did it and finished.....Bring it on Las Veges December 3rd, that is if the toe is healed by then...