I'm going all the way back to September 26, 2015 for this post. Lacy and I ran the Huntsville Half Marathon, and it was a wonderful day! We had a very early start, but a little coffee always helps mitigate that. All smiles, even though I'm pretty sure this was around 4:30am.
Once we got to Huntsville, the sun was rising and the scenery was spectacular. Unfortunately, my phone bit the dust a month or so after Huntsville, and a lot of my photos were lost, but at least I had these that I had posted to social media.
We had to be bused from Huntsville to the starting area, so there was a little bit of time spend standing around and waiting. But that was okay, because I also ran into my friend Natasha at the start! The leaves were gorgeous, and I was thrilled that it wasn't raining this year.
Lacy and I run different paces, so we didn't plan on staying together during the half. Lacy ran ahead, and I trucked along at my own slower pace. It did get pretty warm during the half, but we both survived and got to see some great views of the valley around Pineview during the run. I finished slower than I had hoped to, but I felt pretty good this entire race, so I considered that a positive outcome for the day.
FINISHERS!
I'm sure we'll do this race again sometime, just not this year. The Huntsville organizers moved the race a week earlier in 2016, which puts it one week after the Big Cottonwood Full Marathon. And that is just not enough time to recover from a full and be ready to run another half. So maybe in 2017 we'll be back.
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