“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” — Saint Augustine
As I blogged earlier this year I trained and successfully completed a half marathon. The next goal was now to finish an entire marathon, something that I had always wanted to do and was on my ‘bucket list’ of sorts. At the time I registered for the Orange County Half Marathon I also signed up for the Chicago Marathon five months later.
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I completed my first half marathon, in Orange County, CA, on May 2nd. I didn’t get as much time to train as I would have liked, partially due to a sore left foot injury. My goal was to run as much of the first half that I could and then keep up a fast walk to ensure I could finish the 13.1 mile distance before the 3 hour and 30 minute course cut off.
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We spent last weekend in Portland, Oregon, as my husband Darren ran in the Portland Marathon on Sunday morning. I had never been there before and didn’t have a lot of time to research what to see and do. I thought I would use this as an opportunity to rely heavily on my iPhone and my free apps (by design I don’t have but a few paid apps) that I have downloaded for assistance.
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