. Mom . Travel Junkie . Runner . Triathlete . Vegetarian .
What better than to start off the New Year with a race in pouring rain? Last year, this was my first race after I started seriously training, and I wasn’t going to let it go this year. Not to mention the $30 race fees and the cute race Long sleeve tech Tshirt ATC Track Club…
Today is the first anniversary of my running journey. Last Christmas Eve, terrified of having signed up for the ING Georgia Half, I laced up and stepped utside my home. I walked/jogged 3 miles and came back in tears. I hated every minute of it, and I hated myself for doing that to myself. I…
The hills kept coming and coming and coming, in the second half of the course. I felt the hills on the second half. This may be one of the races where I bank time in the first half to allow for a 30-60 seconds fade in the second half. The water stops were 2 miles…
It was an unusually wonderful start to the day. Temperature in 50s at the end of November! Unheard of! I had on cute new running gear. What more could I ask for 🙂 I had slight gear malfunction until about 5 miles. It got hot/humid pretty fast, but because of my armband music, I…
Course starts and end at Oglethorpe University (great finish party). The first 2-3 miles (for my speed) were in the dark. The little speed bumps on dark roads were tripping obstacles. Small but fun race with no corrals. The running in the dark in the beginning may have partly contributed to me going out a…
Whew! So glad to be done with this!! And happy the way it ended, although I am sad about the time. The race was to start at 7am, I got there at 5.40am to find a parking spot nearby. Cold and slightly windy morning that promised to turn out to be a great…
My First Half Marathon – and I’m hooked! After a night of tossing and turning, the alarm clock woke me up at 4.30am. After quickly cooking breakfast for the girls and nursing Brinda, we waited for Stephanie (our babysitter) to come and we were off. Slight time delay and our train…