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Post-Race Reflections

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Ouch. Sleep. Those are the two things that have been in my head for the past 31 hours or so. I am hurting. And I am tired. So sleepy.  It all started with this blog post  where I mentioned possibly doing a half marathon. Then my good friend Whitney commented asking me to do the Provo Half with her. She said it was downhill and a good one to start with. Fair enough.  So I kept thinking about how I needed to find a training schedule. I would rely on Pinterest because I had already pinned several. But my first issue of Fitness Magazine came just in time. Flipping through it on the elliptical one day I came across a schedule for a 5K, 10K, and half marathon. And that's where I started.  I have trained according to that traditional running schedule since February 19 or so. I've run 190 miles, short 4 miles of what the schedule had me down for. I've been totally committed to preparing for this race. I've run 4 days per week, with 1 cross training day, and 2