With a time of 2:55:03. My first was 3:09:56. I beat my old time by almost 15 minutes!!!!!

I feel so proud and so excited!!!! My next half is in just about 2 months ( end of June), with a mud obstacle and a 10k in between. This is going to be a GREAT summer ; )

Fern, congratulations... I am in awe! What a fantastic achievement... x

You go Fern! Congratulations on improving your time, heck, congratulations on competing in a 1/2 marathon!! Keep us posted with the results of the next marathon. How does one go about training for this type of thing? How did you get started? I want to run a local 5K in July. That is my goal!

When I started running, I couldn't even run a full minute. I just did what I could each day. Run a minute, walk 2, run a minute, walk 2. Then work up from there. Once a week ( once I had been doing this for a while), I started just running. Extra slow and for as long as I could. First time I did it, I think I made it 3-4 min. Then 7, then 9, then 14. I just kept doing it and working at it. One week I jumped from 11 min to 26!! Then next week 41!! It was amazing and so empowering!! The longer I could run, the more I wanted to do it. The biggest thing I can say is to listen to your body. It'll tell you when you can push it and when to hold back. Just do the 5k. Sign up for it today!! It'll keep the motivation going. You can always walk it if you absolutely need to, but adrenaline will tell you to "run baby run"

You are amazing! Congrats!

I can see how it could become an addicting (healthy) adrenaline rush Fern. Thank you for the tips!!

Good job. Keep up the good work.