7/22/2023 0 Comments June running challenge 2021![]() I texted my boyfriend at mile 18 saying this is NOT going as planned. I tried everything from bananas, to water, to Gatorade, but I couldn’t get it to go away. Mile 8 I got a side ache, which has never happened before. October came and we were off to Chicago! I was SO EXCITED & very nervous for my first world major marathon. With attending graduate school full time, working 32 hours a week and doing a long run every weekend, I was stretching myself a little thin… Graduate school started back up for me in August and that’s when training was really getting ramped up with longer runs since the Chicago Marathon in October was coming up. Then Disney announced they were back for in person races! I decided to run the Dopey Challenge again for Give Kids The World. I thought, "Why not?!" My training continued. Then I got an email saying come run for Team For Kids and complete New York virtually for a guaranteed entry for 2022. So after a 5 day break after running Newport, I resumed my training. So, that was marathon #2 by the month of June. I had ran 4 marathons prior and hadn’t beaten the 5 hour mark until this race. I PR’d by 32 minutes with a time of 04:45:11. Their encouragement and cheering was what led me to FINALLY break 5 hours. I cried at mile 25 when I realized I was going to break 5 hours. They did leap frog with the cars to meet me at various check points. With the help of my boyfriend, Grandma and her neighbors, we came up with a game plan for them to help and watch me on the open road. I had made the decision to run it on the same course even though I knew it wouldn’t be closed off to traffic. We arrived and my Grandma’s entire retirement neighborhood was so excited about us being there to run the race. June came and we set out on a road trip! We drove from Denver, CO to Newport, OR with our Great Dane and Catahoula puppy. Since my Grandma was counting on me coming out and running, I decided to stick with the training plan and run it virtually. I was given three choices: participate virtually, request a refund or donate my registration money to charity. I also received the sad news that the Newport, OR marathon turned virtual. Training kicked off shortly after! March was a busy month! I received the email that I was selected for the Chicago Marathon via the lottery! I was so excited and had no idea at the time what the whole Abbott World Majors was. Keeping it as a family race, I let my Grandma know that I would be out there in June to run it. ![]() My Grandma and Grandpa ran it in 1999 and my Grandma ran it again in 2000. My grandma threw out an idea of running the Newport, OR marathon in June. But I completed it and was so incredibly happy (and sore…) for completing the challenge virtually.įebruary rolled round, and after just completing the Dopey Challenge, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do next. Running that without the hype of running through the Disney parks was difficult mentally. ![]() I ran 48.6 miles for Give Kids The World virtually in Colorado over that 4 day period. The Dopey Challenge consists of running a 5k, 10k, ½ marathon and full marathon back to back to back to back. I refused to let COVID dictate my races so I kicked off the start of the year with the Virtual Dopey Challenge. The year 2021 was a whirlwind of running.
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