After months of training and preparing, on May 19th (my dad´s 62nd birthday!) I ran a half-marathon in Lima. Since 2009, Lima has put on a big marathon race in which you can also opt to run a half marathon or a 10k. I ran the half marathon- 21.9 kilometers (13.4 miles) with a time of 2 hours and 3 minutes and I had a blast! I actually thought my time was going to be around 2 hours and 30 minutes since that´s around what I run in the mountains at high altitude so I was pleasantly surprised to have almost a half hour cut off my time thanks to running the actual race at sea level! 14,000 people participated in the race and it was very well organized and put together (which is saying a lot since it was put on by Peruvians!). I had so much fun and I definitely want to do it again next year :) A bunch of other Peace Corps volunteers also participated in the race and a Peace Corps staff member who was also participating put on a spaghetti feed dinner for all of us the night before. We had a great time hanging out together and catching up as we loaded up on our carbs for the big race. The dog bite and difficult days of training and many hours spent running at 12,000 ft were all worth it!
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| After the race, feeling good! |
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| 14,000 runners participated! |
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