After 3 nights of early wakeups and late bedtimes, I was so tired the night before that Shawna says I fell asleep mid-paragraph! And hence missed the start time memo. It was a hurried departure and we got slightly stuck behind merging lanes of traffic. But that helped us get a spot closer to the entrance! So all was good. For the half marathon, we went as Pirates ready to have a jolly good time! The weather turned from hot…
After kicking off the Dopey Challenge with the 5K on Thursday, our strategy should’ve been to kick back and put our feet up. Instead, I dragged everyone along to Harry Potter world in the afternoon. And we walked around a ton (well, du’h!). So I showed up to the start of the 10K on Friday Sleepy With aching legs. Make that killer aching legs. but complete with awesome costume for our themed race! I had teamed up with Julie Anderson…
We started off the Dopey Challenge 2015 with the 5K race on Day 1. The race was starting “only” at 6:15am, so not so bad wakeup time. The weather ended up being cold and windy! Luckily, the costumes I had designed was going to be ok even with layers and layers inside! So the Fab 3 layered up to start the 5K. We drove up early enough and huddled inside the JDRF tent with the other supporters. The 5k starts…
The entire Dopey Challenge is such a huge saga that it needs to be in 4-6 parts! After plenty of freakouts during the taper week, my Dopey buddies and I started the drive down to the world on Wednesday. After a fun drive and a short stop for lunch at Panera in Gainsville, Florida (thanks to Ajit who had mapped out lunch stops earlier), we reached the Walt Disney World around 2:30-3pm. We headed straight to the packet pickup. The…
Need I say more? I will be swimming 1.2 miles, biking 56 miles and then running 13.1 miles at Augusta, GA – all hopefully within 8.5 hours. Who else is registered/planning to register? Want to follow along as I train for this mammoth? Follow me on other social channels and this blog! Twitter: @fauxrunner Facebook: www.fauxrunner.com/fauxrunner Instagram: www.instagram.com/fauxrunner Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/fauxrunner/ Bloglovin: Follow FauxRunner with Bloglovin
I’ve done the Atlanta Thanksgiving Half Marathon 3 times before – and except for the first time (where I went under 3hrs in a half marathon for the first time), the race has always ended in frustration for me; tears even. But it is a kind of tradition to run, brag and eat. Race Instructions Training Peaks said that I had to run the race with a steady pace of 13:30 – “If you think “let’s put some time in the…
I’m not a stranger to volunteering or cheering at events. I’ve spectated all distances of running (5k to marathon) and a couple of sprint triathlons along being a sherpa (taking care of) of Mr. FauxTriathlete . This past weekend however, was the mother of them all – The Ironman Chattanooga. The famed 144.6 mile event (instead of the usually 140.6 miles) of 2.4mile swim, 116 mile bike (4 extra miles) and 26.2 run in Chattanooga drew a lot of athletes from…