Marine Corps Marathon 2016 October 30, 2016 4:55:10 Temp: Low 60s and slightly overcast at the start, low 80s at the finish What I wore: hat, MRTT MCM tank, Skirt Sports Happy Girl Skirt(this is an affiliate link), Crazy Compression socks, , and Altra Running One 2.5 (affiliate link). I carried a handheld water bottle, one GUs, a cut up rice krispy treat, and an extra nuun tablet. (Oh, and my metro card in case I decided that I needed to DNF.) As I mentioned many times over the last few weeks, I was undertrained for the Marine Corps Marathon 2016 race, so my plan was to have as much fun as I could. I totally succeeded in my plan, but in a very different way than I thought I would. Marine Corps Marathon 2016 Pre-Race I was more … [Read more...]
Lifetime Half Marathon #49: Western Maryland Rail Trail Half
Western Maryland Rail Trail Half April 10, 2016 2:16:32 Temp: mid 20s but sunny What I wore: hat, tank top, half zip, Sugoi running jacket, Skirt Sports Happy Girl skirt, long tights, compression socks, and my Altra Impulse. … [Read more...]
Marine Corps 17.75 2016 Race Report
Marine Corps 17.75 April 2, 2016 1:58:59 Temp: What I wore: hat, short sleeve shirt, arm sleeves, Skirt Sports Happy Girl skirt, compression socks, and my Altra Impulse shoes … [Read more...]
Ragnar Cape Cod Recap
Ragnar Cape Cod was, in a word, fabulous! I was worried that it would not live up to my memories of Ragnar DC, but it did and then some. I met up with the lovely ladies of Moms Do It All Night Long at the start line early on Friday morning. Several of us had decided to wear our DC shirts, so we looked awesome together. I may now also own the skirt that the others were wearing... We made our way through all of the steps and then saw Deborah off at the start line. … [Read more...]
Lifetime Half #39: 2015 RNR DC
RNR DC Half Marathon March 14, 2015 2:18:59 Temp: mid 40s, rainy, and windy (read: awful) What I wore: hat, short sleeve shirt, arm sleeves, Skirt Sports Happy Girl skirt, PROCompression socks, my Altra Intuitions AND a space blanket tied around my shoulders. … [Read more...]
State #7: A 10K PR!
Short story: Today's race was awesome and I finished in 54:49 according to Garmin (no official results yet). Settle back with a beer, the rest of the story is pretty long. Pre-race: We left DC at 7 am on Friday morning. We had decided to go the western route, rather than I-95. Travel went great for the first 5 hours. Then we started hitting rain and there was an accident that had us sitting in traffic, barely moving, for more than an hour. By the time we got to Hartford, the boys were squirrelly and we were exhausted. Unfortunately, our hotel didn't have a pool, so the boys had to settle for ottoman races down the corridor in our suite. Thank goodness we had dinner plans with a blog friend of Beer Geek's at the City Steam Brewpub. … [Read more...]
GW Parkway 10 miler race report
Short story: I finished in 1:31:03 and PR'd by at least three minutes. I was around 1400 out of 4000 runners and finished in the top 25% for women and for my age group. The rest of the story: The GW Parkway race begins at Mount Vernon and ends in Old Town Alexandria. Like many point to point races, this means a shuttle. I got up at 5 am in order to leave the house by 6 for an 8 o'clock race. I was already tired (Jones woke up twice and Shoo wet the bed 5 minutes before my alarm went off) and in a fragile emotional state (due to the death of our friend), so when I realized how hot it was going to be, I seriously considered going back to bed. Instead, I took a quick shower, coated myself in sunblock, and had a peanut butter … [Read more...]
