The First of a Few Posts

This last month has been a whirl wind. We go in spurts of having nothing going on on the weekends to have multiple non stop weekends in a row. The last post I left off with how I surprised my best friend for her bridal shower and got to see my Grandma's. That again was a great weekend. I wish I had gotten a picture with Rach, but we were too busy celebrating her wedding festivities...she is officially Mrs. Bessert now, but that requires it's own blog post!

The weekend after that we had our long anticipated half marathon. With me traveling home the weekend before that and drinking lots of wine  we did not prepare as well as we should have, but some things in life are more important than running a fast race.

We started out our weekend by driving to Wilmington and going out for our "last meal" before the race. We chose to not drink alcohol for the week before the race (most serious runners give that up for much longer), but we were out at a new restaurant that had a really delicious drink menu and one of their sangria's even claimed to be good for you because it used acai berry....enough said, we each allowed ourselves 1 drink. There was a band playing in the parking lot, so we stayed and listened to that, it was super fun and not something you see everyday.

Then we went to bed early for our 5am wake up call and headed down to the start line. We really didn't need to get there as early as we did, so we had some time to take pictures:

On the ferry ride over to the Battleship for the start

 With downtown Wilmington in the background

And this run was completely brutal, we didn't prepare well enough, we weren't in shape enough for it to feel good, but we finished in our goal time (under 3 hours)!!

We were extremely proud of ourselves for finishing, but I can speak for both of us when I say, that was our first and last half marathon. We will probably do some 5k's and 10k's in the future, but that's the extent of it.

All in all, it was a bucket list item and we crossed it off the list!!!