I Just Leveled Up To Sun

Congratulations to Jen D’Italia (HF380) for reaching Sun status this past weekend. She reached Sun at her 52nd half marathon in 50 weeks at the Carlsbad Half Marathon on January 14th. Congratulations Jen!

Jen D’Italia (HF380) – I have been a Half Fanatic since 2010 and over the years have slowly made my way from Neptune to Jupiter 🪐 to Venus to Mercury, where I had been since 2016.
2020 derailed a lot of race plans and put a damper on my love of running for a bit, but once I regained my momentum in late 2022 I started adding on the half marathons, with my goal of hitting my 300th Half sometime during 2023.
It wasn’t until I added a race that threw off my originally planned 300th that I realized that I had 40 half marathons booked… and then reasoned, What’s 12 more? 😆 And so my Sun goal began, about 1/3 of the way through the necessary 52.
On January 14th I hit Sun ☀️ at my 52nd half marathon in 50 weeks at the Carlsbad Half Marathon. 🥳 I am so thankful to the awesome Barbara and Rachel for their support and company and friendship this past year, bouncing around each other on the Leaderboard 😏; appreciative of those in my life who don’t run but encourage me; and so grateful for my health and the ability to run all the half marathons I did to achieve this goal. I’m also very lucky to have had mostly perfect weather conditions at every race (I can only think of 2 that had some rain) and no travel or health snafus that derailed my plans.
As for the 52 half marathons, I was also lucky, as there were only a few I did just to hit Sun that I didn’t really enjoy, and I was able to do almost all of the races in California, driving to them – there were just two plane flights involved (including this final weekend). Altogether my races were in:

California: 49

Nevada: 1

Arizona: 1

Utah: 1
Looking forward to continuing this running journey and forging ahead with some new goals and adventures.
Jen
HF 380

To learn more about the Half Fanatics Level criteria and how to level up click the link below.

https://www.halffanatics.com/fanatic-criteria

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