2005 Seattle Half Marathon

This year Alayne and I decided to run in the Seattle Half Marathon. While we both enjoy running as a workout neither one of us had ever competed or ran this far before preparing for the race. Heck, even while preparing we didn't go 13.1 miles, I believe the longest we both ran was just over 11 miles.

Well this weekend was the weekend. We woke up this morning to find it was snowing but as we left the house it quickly dissipated. By the time we got down to Seattle the rain had stopped and it was turning out to be a nice day. Overall it was a cool day but since it wasn't raining you didn't hear too many people complaining.

While the race results aren't "Official" yet we came in as follows; Alayne 1:51:37 (8.47 mi/hr)and Alex 1:47:58 (8.24 mi/hr). Alayne absolutely ROCKED!!!! She was aiming to beat the 2 hour mark and BLEW it away. I was trying to do somewhere around 1:40 and left room to improve. Not sure how I picked 1:40, but it was what I had in my head.

We both had a great time and are looking forward to doing some more races down the road. Not sure which one will be next, I am thinking it needs to warm up before we race again!

No pictures yet, we'll upload them as soon as we can get some from the website.

Great job ALAYNE I am very proud of you!!!