We got up early on Sunday November 27th to do the Seattle Half Marathon Walk. This would be my 2nd time to do this event but I knew this year would be tougher due to the lack of training I had done. Everything started out fine we hooked up with friends and enjoyed the nice day and the excitement of being there. When I saw the Marathon runners I wanted to join them on their jaunt across I-90 and be part of something big and to be able to say yes I had run a marathon. We ran into several friends who were working he marathon as Hams - Linda and George were patrolling on their bicycles. About mile 7 my knees started bugging me and by mile 9 I winced on almost every step going downhill was much worse. I was very happy to finish the event. We finished in 4 hours about 30 minutes slower then last years time. I hobbled to the car and spent the rest of the day crashed on the couch. I spent some time on Monday trying to figure out what had gone wrong - my IT band had gotten inflamed and rubbed on my boney knees - because I had not done as much training my body let me down. I'm on vitamin I this week and icing. Next year I'll be back to try again.
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