The 10k's were actually much easier than last year and we both had fun doing them. Bryan apparently did not have a problem running them as he was playing car games with me (actually with himself as I was ignoring him, or trying to). We got onto the bridge (Galveston causeway) and he punches me, twitter (yellow car), out of state plate and slug bug. Well I was shocked he was doing that and told him to run on ahead of me, which he did, thank goodness.
The half marathon I think he was nervous, I didn't care what I ran (secretly hoping to beat last years time and possible beat 2 hours), but it would of been find no matter what time I had. This run was all for him, when he stopped, I stopped. It was nasty hot and humid, 74 degrees and 100% humidity, just nasty. We took off and he got caught up in the excitement and started running a bit to fast, I was constantly telling him, slow down. He finally got into the pace we wanted and we ran on. He could see the bridge from some of the roads we were on and kept asking is that it, is that it? We finally crossed onto the highway and began the bridge, I think he was a bit surprised at how steep the bridge was. The bridge starts off flat, then a very slow incline, then straight up. We got to the middle of the steep incline and he starts to walk. As we approached the top when you looked below all you could see was fog over the bay, that was cool. Usually you can look over and see where we turn around at, which is a local marina, but that day it too was covered in fog. When we hit the peak of the bridge, you could feel the temp drop about 10 degrees as we were running into the clouds.
Once we turned around to head back up the bridge, you looked over at the bridge and it was totally engulfed in the clouds. As we got closer the sun was beginning to burn the fog off and the peaks of the suspensions were just peaking out of the cloud. By the time we hit the bridge the clouds were burned off and it was no longer a cool temp drop, it was plain HOT.
We walked quite a bit mostly for him and once for me. Once we got off the bridge we were both out of our mixture that we carry with us and decided to just stop at the aid stations and get water and Gatorade. We had to go under an overpass and while we were running, I decided to reach over and punch him "twitter" haha. Totally caught him off guard. That was funny. We finally made it back to the finish with a time of 2:07 each with him beating me by 1/10 of a second. Matthew, Hannah and Stefanie were there cheering us on and helped us as we finished up. They are what makes a good race possible.
We began our walk back to the car 1/2 mile back, to stretch the legs and walk them off. We get back to the car and Bryan "attempts" to get into the car and hollers out that he can't sit. Of course I am laughing because I forgot that would happen as I have run enough half's that I recover a bit quicker now. So we stretch and dry off and decide where to go for second breakfast.
Overall I am so proud of Bryan for doing this race as it is a very hard one because of the bridge. He is signed up for The Woodlands half marathon coming up this March, which now he has 13.1 miles under his feet and that one is FLAT and I bet he will come off with a faster time than me.
As for the bridge series next year, he of course has no interest in doing it. BUT Matthew does, so that probably means because Bryan and I can't help ourselves, we will be torturing ourselves again next year.
One more to get the long distance bug and so far she wants to do a marathon relay with us 6.5 miles, then who knows a half will soon follow. I love my running family
The medal you get when you finish all three races. You get one for each race, then the final one here
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