Blue Nose International Marathon

Well its been quite an experience to say the very least. It all started off quite smoothly with plans to do the half marathon. However, those plans were unfortunatly kiboshed when on March 22 i broke my femur getting out of bed. So i spent a week in the hospital then had to take a couple of weeks off training to allow myself to heal. It put a slight change in my plans for the the race in that i had to do the 10km. That was ok cause i told myself that i was gonna be involved in the marathon no matter what. So the ten Km was the plan. My sister and mom were going to each do half of the half with me so they decided to do the entire ten with me as it was a shorter distance. It really helped motivate me to do it cause they pushed me mentally by cheering me on every step of the way. I was hoping to finish the ten in two hours. I ended up finishing in 1:45:38 and i was even in the Community Herald......twice. Once for having my trainer come up with a solution to training in the winter time. He made me a treadmill. Then once for finishing the 10km despite my injury. So it was a great time despite all the little bumps in the road. It has also inspired my sister to start training for the half that her and i are going to do in 2009! I am so proud. Cant wait for next year my sister and i are training for the half. She and I train on the same days just in different places. She runs in Enfield and i train at the Nova Scotia Rehab Center on Monday and Thursday. Its gonna be a great year i just know it. Thanks y'all. TTFN

Kelly Jean Bennett Disabled Athlete