Life is starting to get back to normal after our WDW trip this week! I wanted to pop on here and give an update to my Star Wars Half Marathon I ran this past Sunday. I went into this very under trained. Our air quality did not allow for us to get out and run safely. We were pretty much stuck with only running 5k training runs. Our longest training run was 9 miles and that was well over a month before our race. So I knew it wasn’t going to be pretty. I was hoping that all of our training from Dopey would just carry me through. Well….it didn’t. I can honestly say that my race on Sunday was one of the worst races I’ve ever done. Not even just because my pace was horrific, but physically I was in pain. I have issues with my feet blistering walking around WDW. Usually, they don’t show up until the end of a trip. My toes naturally go under each other, so added days of walking creates friction, which creates blisters. Well, it was super hot and humid and I had blisters by our second day of the trip! They were already sore by Saturday and I was starting to hobble. Ryan and I could not sleep the night before the race. Neither of us were anxious and nothing was running through our minds, we just couldn’t sleep! So we got up at 2:15am with about an hour sleep. I had said that no matter what I would stop for a picture with Ewoks if they were out since I kicked myself after our last two Star Wars races and didn’t stop. Ryan texted me that they were at mile 2.25 (since he started a couple corrals before me he was going to give me a heads up). So I pulled off and had a 13+ minute wait for the Ewoks. But I was so glad I finally got my picture!! It was a hot race start at 71* and 87% humidity. I got a nice light sprinkle for about a mile after seeing the Ewoks. But once the rain broke, the humidity was back. I stopped for a quick potty stop in Pandora. So fun to run through there! But by mile 6-7 my feet really started hurting. I began running on my heels to take pressure off my toes. It felt like my blisters were going to burst. The problem is that this caused my feet and arches to drop (even with my orthotics in) and my feet were in agony. I got to the point where I could barely walk or run. But I kept moving forward. I brought my cooling cloth with and had it soaked with water by mile 4 to start cooling me down. This is pretty much the only thing that kept me from overheating. I was dizzy a few times on the course and just did my best to stay cool. I originally thought that I would finish in about 3 hours to 3 hours 15 minutes due to lack of training. Once I stopped for the Ewoks, I couldn’t get moving, plus with my feet in agony I just couldn’t move! I finished with my slowest ever finish time of 3 hours 45 minutes. 45 minutes slower than what I have ran on my worst previous race. I was bawling on the course from the pain. But I absolutely would not quit. I could barely walk back to the bus at the end. As soon as we got to our room, Ryan adjusted my feet. Apparently I dropped most of the bones down. I then took a nap for a good 45 minutes. I never ever ever sleep after a run! My blisters are still present but I’ve been living in flip flops at home to help them dry out and are finally doing better. I will never ever ever ever ever do a half marathon with that little of training again! Our next race will probably be Dark Side next April. So I will be spending the next year working on cross training and nutrition to drop weight. And then focus on proper training for that half marathon.
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so despite everything else you should be very proud of yourself that you managed to work your way through it 
