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Monday, May 5, 2008

I finished a marathon!



Flying Pig Marathon
Cincinnati, Ohio-May 4, 2008
4 hours, 41 minutes, 6 seconds

I completed my goal to run a marathon yesterday! It was the hardest and most exhilarating thing I have ever done! I did it through Team in Training (I highly recommend if you are going to train for any endurance event). I think all those years of swimming when I was younger paid off-because my lungs felt great the entire way. My legs/feet are another story! :) I have the full recap (if you are into the gory details) on my blog! I am pretty sure I am retiring from the sport of full marathons!

Not nearly as exciting as all the baby news (seriously, stop or I am going to drink the water too!! :) :) )--but I thought I would share! Oh and I have to say-I was way excited that I beat my goal time of 5 hours and 30 minutes set by Katie Holmes in the NYC marathon last year! ;)

Take care! :)Charlene

5 comments:

Maggie said...

Congratulations Charlene! That is a huge accomplishment that I hope to do some day.

Hugs
maggie

ps drink the water

Margaret said...

drink, drink, drink!!!

way to go Char!!

Anonymous said...

congrats charlene! i did a 1/2 marathon through team in training when i was 17 and it was great! i am really impressed with your time!!
mags, i just had an idea. someday we should all enter a race at a destination (san diego, hawaii, anyone?) and train for it in our own cities and meet for a weekend gathering/race. i'm in! (although my time will be more like 6 hours :)
way to go charlene, and thanks for posting!
jillian

Anonymous said...

Congratulations Charlene!!! That's incredible!

-Kristy

Anonymous said...

Congrats Charlene, I know I could never run even half that far. It's been great learning what's going on in your life, keep the updates coming!
-Liz