Whidbey Island Half Marathon

Last weekend I ran the Whidbey Island Half Marathon with Megan, a friend from work. We didn't get to train together as much as we had hoped and we both went into the race knowing that it was hilly and that we probably weren't in quite as good of shape as we should have been! That being said, I think we would both agree that the race went quite well and we were happy with how it went!

Kyle and I dropped the girls of with Grandma on Friday afternoon and headed down to Whidbey Island. We stopped for a few pictures at Deception Pass and then made it to our hotel in Oak Harbor. 

21 weeks pregnant and ready to run!

It's a beautiful view!

We walked from our hotel to the Expo where we picked up both my and Megan's race packets and sampled a few new flavors of Nuun Sports drink...there wasn't much else at the expo! For dinner, we found this cute little Italian restaurant, Rustica, where we had some delicious food. Then it was back to the hotel where we had an early-to-bed sort of night! 

Saturday morning Megan met us at the hotel at 6:15 and Megan and I hopped on the shuttle to take us to the starting line. It was a bit chilly, but it was clear and not raining so a beautiful day for a run! My hip has been bothering me for the past few weeks of training and when it started hurting at mile 0.5, I was a bit worried! But it didn't get much worse until about mile 7, and even then it remained at a tolerable level of pain for the rest of the run! Significantly better than the last few training runs I did!!

Kyle brought his road bike along and rode along both the Half-Marathon course and the full marathon course. He saw us around mile 5 and was able to take a few pictures and then headed off towards the finish. It was a bit hillier than he anticipated and we were running a bit faster than I had told him we would be doing, so we actually made it to the finish about 15 minutes before he did!

Around mile 5...still feeling pretty good!

At the finish line. 1 hr 59 min and 56 seconds!

Megan and I at the finish...with our medals to prove it!

Towards the end, I was definitely ready to be done running, but for being 21 weeks pregnant and not doing quite enough training, I was quite surprised that we were able to finish in 2 hours! It was a pretty course and I think it would be a fun one to do again!