Hi! I ran the Run Through Redlands half marathon this morning. I had a surprisingly good race. Here is my Redlands race recap and results…. (let me know if you ran a race or had a training run below too)
Let’s start from the beginning…
I signed up for the race online and got my bib race day morning. The Run Through Redlands race offers a 5K, 10K and half marathon. It was easy to pick up my bib on race morning, put my stuff in the car and get ready to run.
Pre-race: easy to find race start, quick and easy packet pick-up and a lot of free parking. It’s a fairly small race, but was very well organized.
The race: Started on time. It was kind of a low key start, just a count down and no big start or finish line.
The most important thing to note: It is HILLY.
Very hilly. As I was running I felt my quads started to feel dead. I just kept thinking “this is so hilly!!”.
Just when I thought I wanted to take it back a bit because it was too hard – I ran by a guy who pointed to a girl ahead of us about 50 yards and said, “There’s your podium spot.”
I immediately dismissed it saying, “This is the hilliest race I’ve never done!!’
I wanted to slow down, but his comment was a wake-up call and I kept an eye on her and decided to push it and see what I got today.
She stayed 50 yards in from of me so it was good to just keep myself honest – if she was chugging along on the hills then I should be able to too . I just tried to keep a good pace, not walk and not cry.
Then, around mile 11 I passed her and kept going. I decided to push it. I kept going – not sure if she was right behind me or what.
I just held on to my pace and did what I could. Finally, I finished! Awww. So nice to be done!
Then, the guy from earlier in the race came up to me and told me Congrats! If it wasn’t for him I probably would have phoned it in. That lil encouragement was all I needed to really ‘show up’. It made all the difference. I got 3rd place female (that’s what he was talking about getting top 3 and on the podium).
Redlands Half Marathon results: 1:44:18
Post-race orange juice. This was perfect – we ran past a lot of orange groves and gorgeous houses with orange trees.
Post-race I went to my brother’s to spend some quality time with my family. We went to church and then breakfast.
The have all the condiments you need here!
Overall: Great race. Great weather. Hard hills. I feel like I did well on the run.I probably wouldn’t do it again next year/soon since it is such a hard course, but maybe. Great food.
Wow! This is such a big motivator. Congratulations on a strong finish – I truly enjoyed the account of your day! You mentioned hills, that must make you feel even more accomplished because it was a difficult race. Looking forward to more accounts of your running adventures!
Congratulations on the podium finish! AWESOME!!
Nice job! Way to push thorough a tough race and yay on placing! 🙂
I had an easy 12 with my daughter – we are tapering for the Shamrock Marathon coming up in 2 weeks!
Hey Monica! I ran RTR too (ran it last year as well, so you may be hooked! Haha) and yes those hills killed me, but unlike you at about mile 12 I felt pretty done! Ok soooo Funny thing, I live super close to granny’s(Beaumont) small world, anyway…congrats on great run and top 3!!!!!
You rock!! I’ve done the 5K and 10K for this event, and it truly is HILLY!! I was set to run the 5K and woke up with food poisoning. Fun stuff…not!
I was looking forward to trying to spot you, too (I live in Redlands so I was just going to hang out in hopes I saw you lol). Maybe next year. haha
Congrats!! Third female thats so awesome! I haven’t raced in so so long. I keep trying to schedule one and then something comes up. Maybe I’ll be ready for a fall half!
Congratulations Monica!!!!!!
You’re awesome
WOW! Congratulations on those amazing results Monica!!
I’m on injury-rest so did not run at all during the weekend. However, I did eat quite a lot. No complains haha.
YOUR SOCKS ROCK! I love those girl, you go! That looks like the perfect post run meal!
Wooohoo! Congrats! 😀
Congratulations on placing!!
Yay! Congrats! That’s awesome!
I ran 8 slow training miles on Saturday and went skiing yesterday with my niece and my boyfriend and his two daughters. I got quite the workout pulling them back up every time they wiped out! It was an awesomely physically draining weekend 🙂
Congratulations on a strong finish! Thank you so much for sharing this recap! Running a full/half marathon was my dream in my teens and early twenties, but bad knees and other life things have made the dream slip further and further away. Your posts are definitely inspiring for all the runners.
Great recap. That guy was pretty awesome. Congratulations for placing 3rd!
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