Filed under: Vancouver Adventures
My “marathon,” the Vancouver Sun Run was on Sunday and despite some bumps in my training plan it was a really awesome experience.
Athletically I really impressed myself, I started training late but I was doing really great and then two weeks before the run I hurt my foot somehow and it messed up my running and I pretty much stopped for the time leading up to the run. Despite putting myself in the hour and a half category I decided I was going to aim to cross the finish line in an hour. I really pushed myself and there was a time around 7k when I just wanted to lay down and die but instead I put on Stronger by Kanye and trucked it to the end. I finished with a time of 1:02:17 (personally I think I would have been under an hour if I hadn’t had to dodge walkers the whole way).
Just being there and experiencing the Sun Run was amazing too. The streets of downtown teeming with people at like 8 in the morning, bands playing, colourful balloons lining the streets, runners of all shapes and sizes and ages everywhere – it was a really great atmosphere. Then all along the route there were bands playing and water stops and people cheering you on, clothes littering the sides of the route (they donate these to the salvation army). It’s a really big event in Vancouver and there were a LOT of people which sometimes got annoying because you can’t just give ‘er all the time but that’s also what makes it such a great event the level of public involvement.
I have a love/hate relationship with running, I always want to be a runner but getting out there and doing it can be a b*tch. I think this really got me back into it and I want to keep up my running because in the end I do really enjoy it.
