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Howdy readers! Today I’m recovering a bit from the Breast Cancer half marathon yesterday. It was a BE-A-UTIFUL run. I love, love, love this course and hopefully next year will do the full marathon. My good friend lives in Jax with her kids and husband so it was great to see them too.
The race was pretty well organized with an AWESOME runner’s village for pre and post-run activities. The shuttle service was great too, considering there were so many participants.
We started at the Mayo clinic and ran down toward Jax beach. We ran on the beach, back through downtown Jax beach, and then back to the Mayo clinic for the finish. It was such a beautiful run. I would recommend it to everyone! Also, it is for a great cause. All proceeds from the race go to breast cancer research!
I decided to do this race just for fun because I knew I would still be recovering from the full marathon I did two weeks ago & unfortunately, last Wed and Thurs I had a bad case of the stomach flu. Needless to say I knew this race would just be a fun one. But of course the competitive gal in me couldn’t resist…which really screwed me in the end. I started off with about an 8:45 pace for the first 7 miles and then all of a sudden it hit me…I had no energy and my body started to ache really bad. I have never felt joint pain in a half marathon before so I was quite surprised. After the difficulty of mile 7 I decided that it was more important for me to finish without injury than to get a PR. So, the rest of the race was pretty easy. I walked a couple of time, enjoyed the scenery and the crowds, listened to some great music on my iPod and still finished in 2:09:43. NOT TOO SHABBY, considering 
I will definitely be doing this race again and hopefully will make it an annual event!
Hope you all had a great weekend! Gotta go!
Jenn
