I terrified myself!  Well, kinda.

The race pics from the Viking Half Marathon came in last night.  I took a look not expecting much.  I take terrible race pics.

The Viking Half Marathon was on March 28, 2015, in Greenwood, Mississippi.  It was a pretty chilly day.  The temps were perfect for running, though!  You could really give it your all without worrying about getting too hot.  Nice!

This race was pretty cool in that part of the course was on the old brick streets of the town.  I had never run on brick before so I liked the novelty of that.

When I go through my race pics, I am very, VERY hard on myself.  I look at my form and invariably groan.  Ugh.  Heel striking.  AGAIN!  Or, my butt looks huge in those tights (tights are unforgiving)…you know, normal stuff.

When I looked at the pics from the Viking, I was surprised!  My form was good!  I wasn’t heel striking in any pics.  At all!  I knew I had been working on my form and all for quite a while but it was nice to see that I was improving.

I was nice and tall.  Before, when I would get tired, I had a tendency to slouch.  I would get so fatigued that I couldn’t hold myself up anymore.  I was pleased to see that I was upright.

The thing that was frightening was my face!

Yikes!!!

I am hear to tell you, if I saw someone running towards me with that look on their face, I would run and hide.

Seriously!

I guess maybe I was a tad competitive that day.   🙂

Happy Running, all!