The Results are IN: Congrats to the Phit-n-Phat Endurance Gals!
We had 2 sets of endurance events around Phit-n-Phat this weekend.
First, we had Kathleen and Tammi compete in the 32rd Running of the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon in Indianapolis on Saturday, May 3. It was a field of over 35,000 runners.
To quote from Kathleen's post about the race:
"Running around the Indy 500 track was just awesome and it is over two miles so that eats up a lot of miles and it is mid way so a really neat thing this see when you are ready for something different than streets! All the mileage was marked very well, wonderful volunteers, plenty of water and gatorade. The medals are neat with a car on them and the wheels move too so it is certainly a keeper :) Lisa finished the race and we were so proud of her to just finish it and want to actually continue running and maybe even another race."
Lisa is a friend who Kathleen and Tammi helped get through her first 1/2 marathon.
Our other endurance gal is Jill, our spotlight member, in her first Sprint Triathalon. She competed in the Ohio State Triathalon. From their website: "This awesome event will give participants an opportunity to swim a serpentine 400 meters swim in the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion 50 meter pool, followed by a 20k bike ride through the campus, passing by the OSU Horseshoe, the Value City Arena and finishing with a fabulous 5k through the OSU campus."
Jill proudly finished the race, enjoying the spectators encouragement and her own mental and physical strength:
"WWWOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO yep that is what I yelled as I crossed the finish line!!!
My hubby got a great picture (I made him check the camera before we left - I told him if he didn't get a good picture I'd totally 'stage' one) HA! But I didn't have to he did a good job!!! But of course that's because I had practiced my finish pose.
Ladies - I am not going to fib... on the 2nd half of the bike I seriously had thoughts of quitting. My legs were DEAD... IFFFFFFFFF I would have had my phone with me I think i would have called John and said "come get me". But I didn't have my phone... and you know what... after about 10 minutes my legs came back!!!! Funny JOhn was next to the transition area and he kept saying to me (both times) you're doing fine... take your time ... don't worry about where everyone else is. I don't think he has any idea how much that meant to me.
I joked it up with some of the 'volunteers' on the bike and run route... I kept asking the bike volunteers where all the SLOW riders were... swear to GOD I've never heard "on your left" so many times in my life!!! I asked a cop once if he wanted to trade places with me! Then on the run they kept saying 'one more corner and you're done'. yea - that got old when it WASN'T one more corner. A guy said that and I yelled "LIAR"... I did laugh... Then the guy that was REALLY standing at the last corner. OH MY GOD he helped me finish my race with gusto. He was YELLING and I mean YELLING "PICK IT UP COMEON YOU CAN DO IT THIS IS YOUR RACE RIGHT THERE IS THE FINISH COMEON YOU CAN DO IT PUSH YOURSELF PUSH PUSH PUSH" I hope he heard me muster out THANK YOU between my breathing.
Funny I don't remember even hearing myself breath? (that was something I hated about running outside)..."
A huge and well deserved congratulations to Kathleen, Tammi and Jill - our PnP Girls who proved, once again, that they can do it!