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1st half in the books folks

My last doc appointment my prograf level was low. A week later I got my blood check and everything is good. This is very important because I don't want my ticker too reject on me.


I did it, finished in one piece. Let me start from the beginning. I was freezing the entire time, I thought it was going to be warm... no not at all. I was really nervous, I don't know why because I have been training. At the starting line I looked around at all the runners. I was thinking, wow there are some real runners here. This bump up my nerves even more. As the race director counted down I reminded myself, you can do this and you are going to finish no matter how long it takes. I started my watch and began running, after all the "real runnner's" passed I started to get emotional. I thought about how I wouldn't be here at this moment if it wasn't for my donor. After 10 seconds, I sucked up my tears and kept running, 5 minutes later I started to cry again. I looked around and there was a few people coming up and I sucked up my tears again. There is no way I could of ever done that without my donor. There are no words to express how good it felt to complete. It wasn't no walk in the park though, my legs were gone after 8 miles. Steve asked me if I was done. I said no I am finishing. I kept going even though my muscles were telling me to stop. At the last 3 miles I swear there was hill after hill. I was so tired, I stopped for 5 seconds and told myself quitting is way easy, you don't want easy, finish. Everytime I thought I couldn't go any further I thought of my donor and said do it for her. I made a goal to try and finish in 2 hours and 30 minutes. I finished in 2 hours and 34 minutes.


FINISH LINE

After I raised my arms the emotions overwhelmed me again. My back, thighs and hip flexors were telling me to stop and sit down ASAP!! My mother wanted to take pictures of course. Pictures was not on my agenda, I wanted to stretch and lay down. I recovered pretty well, my muscles are sore, but that is a given I ran 13.1 miles. 


My mom ran the 5k and go 2nd place in her age group, because she is awesome like that :)


Thank my mom for taking pictures, not me.
The finish line was at my sister-in-laws family family FYI



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