I Survived!!

We are back from Santa Cruz and I am alive. We had a great time. The weather was perfect, the house was an ideal location, the company was fun, the run was LONG!! 13 miles is a long way! The run was so pretty along the beach and strawberry fields. I felt pretty good for the first 10 miles. Around mile 10 my feet went to sleep so I stopped to shake them out and loosen my shoes and they stayed numb till mile 12. So the last mile wasn't too bad. I finished in 2:25. I wanted to be faster but I did make my goal of under 2:30.
One thing I do know is that I will never do a marathon!! Now that I have had a few days to think about it I will do a Half again someday. On Saturday the whole day afterward I swore that I never would again. But I think it is kinda of like childbirth where you just forget the pain and you do it again.
I had such a good time with my friends as well. We were able to go to eat even though we seemed to have bad luck with choices in restaurants! :) Saturday we were able to lounge around the house and lay on the beach in the afternoon. We went to a celebration dinner and then rode a roller coaster on the Boardwalk to cap it all off. I hope we can do this again someday!
Now it is back to the real world. I am actually at my parent's till this afternoon and then will be back. Now it is on the the gym's Fitness Challenge....