So last year around December maybe November my husband comes home from work and tells me that I am running the Bataan Marathon with him on the coed team. I just who are the other girls running and he said you. I was the only girl to make it a coed team. We trained for about 4 months and ran a couple of races in betwwen. We discovered one more thing in our marriage that we enjoy doing together. A month before we ran "the Marathon" we did the El Paso Half. It was honestly the funniest run that I think that we have done. Some people think that I am crazy but it was fun. Dave and I both enjoyed it. I took 6th in my age group. The sad thing is if I had been about 3 years younger I would have won. But the older you were the faster the times got. Very shocking. Anyway, here is a picture of Dave and I finishing our first half marathon together.
Now about the marathon. We ran it on the 30th of March and took 5th as a team overall. Mind you this isn't a flat course. It is in the desert and there is an elevation climb of 1200ft. It is deep sand and rocks. We started off pretty good. When we got to the start of the incline we had a little bit of a head wind and one of our teammates kind of freaked out. That ended up costing because then his muscles were cramping. We finished an hour past our goal time. It was quite a bummer. The harder part about it is that you had to be within 20 seconds of each other. So we may try it again without a team. Just do it as individuals.
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