Run2GetFitNik ❤️️s Running : How this whole running ME got started!

This is ME!! Well it's me a few years ago ! It was 2013 and I was about to run my very first race, my first running event ! I had no idea what I was doing! I had just started running this year and wanted to challenge myself to do something I never had done. I wanted to step out of my comfort zone and do something new! So I signed up for a half marathon, I had never even ran a 5k race before ! I read and read; people's blogs, looked for advice through Pinterest and found motivation on Instagram! Then race day came and I followed all my pre race instructions and boom I was at the starting line of the AFC Half Marathon in my hometown of San Diego ! I never had seen so many runners, I didn't know what a corral was I just knew my bib number and was told to line up over there to start ! Someone asked me how many half marathon's I had done and I told them this was my first, they hi-fived me and wished me luck ! Another runner asked if I was going for a new "PR" and I said this is my first run ! They too wished me luck ! I then pulled out my phone and googled the running term "PR"! Ok personal best, just finishing 13.1 miles seemed like a personal best I didn't care the time it took ! But anyways all the support and encouragement I received that day at the starting line was something I'd never forget ! That warm August morning in 2013 forever changed my life, my family cheered me on as I crossed my first ever finish line!! A new me was born, I was hooked! I became a runner !!

- Niki -

. My first blog .

Here are some other pictures from this race !