Well Done!!!! Your powerful RR rocks!!! Thanks

Just now getting to this. Teresa, I'm so happy for you, and I see how excited you are by the tone of your post. You have every right to be pumped. Look at what you have accomplished. Not only your first half, but you also learned so much valuable information too. Making a written list of what to do and bring on race day is a very professional approach. Often we read in RR's how people forgot a very important item due to the nervousness of race day. Also, scoping out the course in advance is a great idea for a race of any distance. You can be sure the race winner did this. We should do it too. Very nice job. Spareribs

sorry, two more questions. a. knowing 1:1 timing - watch alarm is sometimes to quiet; kitchen timer? b. did you adjust the 1:1 at all for aid stations, portas, ascents and descent on hills, etc.?

sorry, two more questions. a. knowing 1:1 timing - watch alarm is sometimes to quiet; kitchen timer? b. did you adjust the 1:1 at all for aid stations, portas, ascents and descent on hills, etc.?

a. I used my Garmin 305 - the time alert is louder than the distance alert. I had the distance alert set, too, though, and sometimes we would mistake one for the other! There is a timer called a Gymboss availabe at this site http://www.jeffgalloway.com/detail.aspx?ID=49 that my running partner used. She had it set on "low" and it was loud enough for me to hear, a few feet away. One warning with it: It stops after 100 minutes! That was a surprise to her in the middle of our race. It's easy to reset, but it's good to know about ahead of time. b. It was funny - just through luck, almost every time we got to an aid station, we were walking. The one time we were running, I just grabbed a cup and held onto it until the next walk interval! I have a big bladder, so I never worried about stopping at a porta potty. Until the last mile, I stuck to the run/walk intervals no matter where I was - uphill, downhill, whatever. At mile 12, though, I was at the top of a big dip when I was supposed to start walking, so I ran two minutes in order to make it down the hill, and then walked a minute up the other side of the dip. We did run up one BIG hill that everyone else around us walked! Even that was an empowering experience. I have a good friend who is going to run the Chicago Marathon in a couple of weeks, and she's freaking out because she just had a horrible 18-mile run (she was crying, it was so bad). I think I will suggest she try a little walking!

I have a good friend who is going to run the Chicago Marathon in a couple of weeks, and she's freaking out because she just had a horrible 18-mile run (she was crying, it was so bad).

Teresa, You should tell your friend she doesn't have to cry when things go badly. She can do what a man would do, which is get angry and find someone to yell at. Fine job in your race, and good race report. Your running/walking half was almost as fast as my one and only half last year. Dark Horse

Totally magnificent report and results! May this be the first of many more RRs from you. And I have to tell you, how timely from our perspective--now that DH is back recuperating from the bypass, he wants to get up to another half marathon (he ran his first one in just under 2:15). I hope you wouldn't mind fielding a few questions about the Garmin and your Galloway implementation when we're up in your neck of the woods? Can't wait to meet you, grins, A ps: as for lists--I have a list of what to pack when I travel to a marathon that I just print out before each trip, modifying for weather, etc.

Hi Theresa, What a great race and RR!! The only thing that went wrong was that #$*&!! flat tire, and you handled that very well, especially given the circumstances. You and Martha did a great job of sticking to your pre-race plan, and got terrific results as a result of it. Perhaps most importantly, you had a great day, a lot of fun, and a most memorable race! Thanks for sharing your experience, and for bringing as much enthusiasm and excitement to your RR as you did to the race. Jay