5:56 am on the morning after your race might not be a good time to write a race report, but since I am awake and seem to have it fresh in memory, why not! (And there’s some hanky panky going on in the room next door at the hotel, so writing this race report is helping me block out the noises!! Awkward!!). So here goes the race report for Pittsburgh Half Marathon. Pre Race Pittsburgh Half Marathon and full was picked as…
When this bout of sickness knocked me off last week, my main thoughts were filled with frustration. 12 days to a goal race at the Pittsburg Half Marathon is NOT the time to get sick. But those germs don’t play favourites and sickness happens. I moped enough while I was under last week. For the first time ever, I took off 3 sick days (not that it means anything because the work and deadline is still waiting for me. That that…
The Georgia Half Marathon was my first ever race in 2010. And it was my strong showing in the race in 2011 that gave me courage to sign up for my first marathon later that year. I’ve signed up every year since for it (although I didn’t actually end up running it a couple of years since it was 2 weeks after my Spring Marathon and I can’t really call it “running” last year when I ambled to the finish with…
The prep for the race started a little odd when Mike’s pre-race words were of “I want to see what you can do without instructions”. No pace or time requirement other than the generic – “negative split, race smart and finish strong.” Umm… ok. Ok. I can do that. I used to do it before when I took races seriously, and I can do it again. That was thought of in a more gleeful voice than a nervous voice. I love planning! I took the following…
Runners have this funny saying “I run so I can eat”. I say funny because once you become a goal oriented runner, whether it is simply running X days/week or Y miles/week or training for performance, most runners put in an effort to fuel themselves to improve their performance. So while we try to be conscious of what we eat throughout the week, a post race option seems to be off limits. After burning anywhere from 1000-1500 calories for a…
This post on the Dopey Challenge Race Report is a compilation of all my Dopey days! Just a little blurb that hopefully makes it easier for someone to search and read them all (SEO – don’t give up on me now!!) Dopey Challenge: To go Dopey or Not to go Dopey (read before you register!) Week 0 : The Week Before Day 0 : The Expo Day 1 : The Fab 3 take on the Family Fun 5K…
The day of the marathon started bright and early! Not really bright, but certainly early! (Maybe I should stop calling it the start of the day and just refer to it as the continuation of the previous night’s party!) Surprisingly, I wasn’t feeling nervous. All my nervousness was spent the day before during the half marathon, when I could barely get my breaths straight in the beginning! I was feeling surprisingly good for having run 22.4 miles over the past…