Here's your weekend update -
Wow, another amazing - full of laughs - "Runwell Road Trip" to OKC! We had a wonderful support team made up of Keith, Amy, Shawn, Billy, Todd, and Melanie. They came on this trip to help cheer us on. Let me say this - Jhovany, Teddi, and Theresa have all grasped the importance that what you eat does make a difference of how strong you run. These guys have turned it up a notch or two. Cleaning up their eating habits, losing weight, and cross training have made each one of them a stronger runner. They have knocked out some PR’s in the last few months and have no intentions of backing off! Not a bit. Teddi ran an amazingly smart race! Bill, Mg, and I gathered around her - hoping to pace her to bust 2:05 (her PR is 2:08). Also keep in mind, her first half marathon was like 2:40-ish a few years back. That's when she walked and cried the last half. She had jokingly said that she felt like a "Pro Kenyan Runner" surrounded by her pacers in a big race. And just like in the big races, the pacers fell off one by one. LOL. I was the first to drop back at mile six - I just didn't have it. Teddi was strong and smart! She kept her pace at 9:30 to 9:40 for the first 3 miles, from 3-6 she was running 9:00 to 9:15. She kept turning it up a notch, as Bill and Marcus both lost her somewhere around mile 10. She finished with a 2:03. Theresa had been sick and hasn't run much in the last few weeks, finishing 7 seconds before Teddi. Dawn managed to PR by 2 minutes, which includes her tripping a few ladies at the start of the race and having a major fall at mile 6 - scrapping up her knee, elbow, and hip. But she jumped up and finished the race (No Doubt - She is a Runner)! Tonya came in strong without passing out J. Jhovany ~ Jhovany - We all know he has been focused on this goal. He earned his PR by really working hard the last few months for this RACE! It paid off! I ran into Jhovany after I finished. I ask how he did and he said - 1:56 something. I asked him if he did better than 1:56:05!?! He said no. I offered him no "High-Five", no "That’s Great", or even a "Boy you just knocked off 7 minutes from your last time!" Nope. Nothing. In a very mature way - all I did was Stick-Out-My-Tongue, while jumping up and down cheering "WELL YOU DIDN”T BEAT MY PR!!!!! Which is a 1:56:05! Still dancing, After a few minutes, Jhovany returned with a distinct glow of satisfaction in his Eyes - It was then that he proceeded to push some piece paper in my face that read, "Jhovany Bonilla's Finish Time was 1:56:04! It turns out, that he had, in fact, beat my PR by a second - ONE FULL SECOND! Now that's funny!
And the Race Times are:
Jhovany – PR 1:56:04 8:52 pace
Mark O – 1:56:04 Pacer
Novle - 1:56:04 Pacer
Theresa - 2:03:30 9:24 pace ...x
Teddi – PR 2:03:37 9:26 pace ...x
MG – 2:05:18 9:35 Pacer
Nikki – 2:06:22 9:39 Pacer
Bill – 2:06:58 9:41 Pacer
Tonya – 2:17:26 10:29 pace
Dawn –PR 2:33:00 11:41 pace
