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Half Marathon #7 for 2014: Riverboat Series Day 4 – Mississippi

April 17, 2014 by MCM Mama 16 Comments

Riverboat Series Half Marathon -Mississippi
April 15, 2014
2:17:19

Mississippi-start

Temp: low 40s and windy
What I wore: hat, Bondi band, short sleeve shirt, YMX arm sleeves, Skirt Sports Happy Girl skirt,
PROCompression socks, Brooks Essential Run jacket, gloves, and my trusty Altra Intuitions

Once again, the weather decided to throw us for a loop.  It was cold and windy, but sunny.  I was so glad that on a whim I’d packed a pair of gloves and my arm sleeves!  The course was another mostly flat 1.31 mile out and back.  Thanks to the previous day’s rain, the course was changed a bit and I liked the change a lot.  This was the first race where I could tell I had trained hard all winter and I felt AWESOME the entire time.

The good:

  • The course was paved and mostly flat.
  • I chatted with tons of different runners.  Everyone was so happy to not be sopping wet!
  • I felt great!  I think I had a smile on my face for the entire run.
  • Beer Geek’s mom and step-dad were camping there, so they got to see me run.
  • Chocolate creme Oreos.

Mississippi-JC

The bad:

  • The wind.  Since it was two out and back legs to make up the 1.31 miles, we had the wind in our faces about half the time.
  • I missed having Kim and her friends to share the experience with.

Mississippi-collage

The ugly:

  • Nothing.  It was an awesome race.

Mississippi-finish

And, just in case you were wondering how we kept track of all the laps, take a look at my arm…

Mississippi-rubberbands

Each time we finished a lap we got a rubber band!

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4 down, 1 to go!

Race 1 recap: Kentucky

Race 2 recap: Tennessee

Race 3 recap: Arkansas

 

missippi-dangle

Mississippi-medal

 

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  1. Sue @This Mama Runs For Cupcakes says

    April 17, 2014 at 9:23 am

    How was it running a half marathon in laps? How do you mentally get through that?
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    • MCM Mama says

      April 17, 2014 at 6:15 pm

      It’s actually awesome – lots of people to chat with. It’s a running party!

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      • sally @ sweat out the small stuff says

        April 19, 2014 at 6:16 pm

        I ran in last year’s Center of the Nation Series (Nebraska, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana… Clint is an amazing race organizer! I think many who ran that series were at Riverboat. It’s exactly that….a running party! The medals are the best part. And I SAVED ALL MY RUBBERBANDS =)
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        • MCM Mama says

          April 21, 2014 at 7:22 pm

          This was my second series (I ran the first Dust Bowl series), so it was fun to see how far they’ve come in their race organization. And there were people there that I met last year, so that was awesome too. Love the running party!

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  2. Courtney @ Eat Pray Run, DC says

    April 17, 2014 at 9:47 am

    i am just so stinking proud of you! i have loved reading all your recaps and would love to do a series like this someday!
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    • MCM Mama says

      April 17, 2014 at 6:16 pm

      Thank you! I love doing them. I highly recommend Mainly Marathons – they run an awesome race.

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  3. Tyra says

    April 17, 2014 at 10:59 am

    Way to go!
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  4. Jade says

    April 17, 2014 at 1:51 pm

    I’m amazed at what the body can do, back to back half marathons and you are doing awesome! Sure the weather could be better, but you can’t control that!
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  5. Tiina says

    April 17, 2014 at 2:46 pm

    I’m not sure I could do such a short course!
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    • MCM Mama says

      April 17, 2014 at 6:16 pm

      It’s surprisingly fun. With the small number of people, a longer course gets lonely…

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  6. Coco says

    April 18, 2014 at 7:37 am

    You are awesome! 😉 So you did 10 laps of 1.31 miles?
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  7. Jennifer says

    April 18, 2014 at 7:46 am

    You are amazing!! Congrats on another awesome race.
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  8. Kim says

    April 18, 2014 at 2:15 pm

    I’m a day late but no way was I going to miss one of the race recaps! Glad that this one was so great and didn’t have any ugly!!
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  9. Char says

    April 19, 2014 at 2:09 am

    Congratulations! Another one done. Looks like you’re having a ball!
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  10. Heather says

    April 21, 2014 at 2:02 pm

    Congratulations! And omg I think the rubber bands would drive me insannnnnne!
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    • MCM Mama says

      April 21, 2014 at 7:19 pm

      Oddly, they didn’t bother me at all… Except when I was trying to get them off…

      Reply
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