Are you a Marine?

Full blown marathon training is underway! Had to get in 16 miles today, and also had to run the Maj Megan McClung Memorial Run 5K-it is the very first race I ever ran back in 2007. To make sure I was able to do both, decided to run from my house to the race site, run the race and then head back toward my house. Rochelle and I left my house and covered the 8 miles fairly easily. Made it to the race start with no problems and plenty of time to spare. Had an awesome pit crew crew chief-Bill came to the race and took our camel backs for us so we didn't have to to run the race with them, and then had Gatorade waiting for us when we were done.

We get to the registration table to pick up our race packets and we're all sweaty, got our camel backs on and the ladies running the table ask us if we did a warm up run. We told them we ran from the Seaplane Base over to here. They asked us 'Are you a Marine?' LOL We told them no, just a runner:) Race went well, finished in 36:46 which I was happy with.

Then we headed back off base to finish the remaining miles. Rochelle and I need to calibrate our Nike Trackers together as we're off, and since her knee was sore she stopped once her tracker hit 16 and I went ahead to hit my 16 miles. I had a nice little spill at mile 15.25. I was coming off a sidewalk and about to cross the street and when I did, I stepped in a small pothole and rolled my left foot which set the events in motion...lol. I stumbled and I'm sure looked extremely graceful as I fell on my right side-hand, hip and knee all hit. Scraped my knee through my running rights but thankfully didn't rip them and my hand a bit. I'm sure I'll be feeling it all tomorrow-it hurts so much worse to fall as an adult than it ever did as a kid! A very nice lady in a minivan saw me fall and pulled over to ask me if I was ok and if I needed help. I told her thank you, but I'm fine...she asked a couple of more times-must have been a bad spill to watch...lol. I reassured I was ok and thanked her again and continued on with the run and finished strong!

Here are Rochelle and I after 8 miles before the start of the McClung run-