Another Half? Why?

As many of you remember, last weekend I did the Halloween Half Marathon.  I had fun while doing it and it was fun to look at everyones' costumes.  I decided a long time ago that I would only do unique races.  Not the traditional, the gun goes off and everyone starts running.  The Halloween half was pretty traditional, but the costumes made it unique.
Except that decision didn't hold up this weekend.  Friday I had planned to go camping with Annie and a club at BYU.  I scrambled to take a test earlier in the day and I skipped work and everything.  And then Annie and I decided that we'd much rather relax and go to St. George.  Well then I found out my family was staying until Sunday, so we'd have to miss a ward activity.  I thought that would be OK but Annie wanted to stay.  So I ended up going down to St. George with my sister, her friend, and my parents.
On the way down McKenzie and her friend convinced me to do the half marathon with them and my mom the next day.  Without thinking it all the way through, I agreed and signed up for late registration. I then told my mom and she thought I was crazy for A) spending the money and B) doing another half when I really didn't train all that hard for the first one.  But it was too late.
The next morning I knew it was going to be a bad race.  I have some messed up system in my body and I can tell when it's going to be painful to run.  I was right.  The first three miles were miserable.  I really thought I would have to quit and just lose my money.  But then it got sort of better and I ended up finishing my first traditional half.  And... I didn't do any better this week than last week.  Everyone else did but not me.  I did the same.  I'm kind of disappointed but if I'm not gone before february I'm doing another half over valentine's day and I will beat my time.
The End