Chicago Half Marathon

4 months with around 200 miles worth of training and burning around 20K calories I finally managed to finish my first ever Half Marathon. Here are some pictures from my run http://www.marathonfoto.com/order_my_photos.cfm?BFI=jjvu40um1d&Language=en.

I started off well and was doing around 10 mins a mile up until 6 miles. Then started slowing down and was around 10.30mins per mile for around 10 miles. Then I hit the wall when my knees started giving up on me. I managed finally to finish up in 2:41 and completing the run within the allocated time. My timing was around 12:20per mile in the end. The last 2 weeks of my training was not up to par and I blame myself for that :-)

But in the end I am happy that I was able to finish the half. It was so worth all the effort that I went through. Now I have a a lot more respect to the runners mainly due to the dedication and discipline that they need to have to participate in these kind of runs. I hope I can do this again

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