DID IT!!! 15 hours 47 minutes..........(story forthcoming) ..140.6 miles of fun! Race Results Brief: Rain Dead fish, Chop, and Jelly fish Rain 25 min Flat tire and chain issue Rain Road flooding..with Fish Rain Bugs Rain DARK.. DARK.. DARK Did I mention Rain?
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RIVERRUN 5K RUN/WALK
On Sunday, I decided that I would drive to Charlestown Maryland which is a scenic water town in northeastern Maryland so I could run the RiverRun 5K and then scoot over to Elk Neck State Park and get in some open water swimming… I am very glad I did this race… not only was the course challenging and fun but they had a festival going on and the town was alive with fun things to do. However, I could have done without the 90 some degree heat and humidity... but heck we cant get it all! Here is my race report: Sunday was race in Charlestown, Maryland.... took 1 hr 15 mins to get there... 11am race.. it was HOTTER THAN H-ll... thinking around 90 degrees with high humidity... got completely drenched in just the warm up... Tried to be conservative.. felt like my head was going to blow off at mile 2...got really really dizzy...thankfully dumped water on head at aid station... course was great..really challenging with some good rollers and one really painful hill at mile 3.. but it made you hon...
COOLEST ITEMS
NOW I do just find the COOLEST items… um...no laughing!!!… its called PaceTat… ..... what is it??? WELL>.. its a temporary Pace Chart Tattoo that you put on your arm .. you know like those cracker jack tattoos but only a lot better!!! And so while you are racing… you can check to see if you are running at your target pace … and it comes off with baby oil.. so it's NOT PERMANENT...and oh come on.... AINT THAT THE NEATEST THING!!!!…. ??.. OK… soo go ahead and giggle .. !!! ...but you all will be crying and green with jealousy because I will have it and you wont.. and... ... .. I was debating how how to remember all the time splits for the C&D marathon ...say if I wanted to try and qualify for Boston or break 4 hours... .. and so I was going to print up the specs and carry a piece of paper with me… but this .. is so much better… now minus the fact that I am accident prone and I don’t really need anything more to distract me.. and can you imagine me looking at my arm trying to r...
HANDY MAN
I LOVE having a handy man as a hubby…… Not only did Joe take the time yesterday to fix my truck.. that I so.. nicely misshaped.. he also managed to fix our outside garage light that hasn’t been working for say.. a few months… adding a new fangled sensor light… HE IS SOO AWESOME! So I am out the door this am to head to Y.. and its still very dark out.. and so I make it down our walkway and to the driveway and SHAZAAMMM!!!!. ........10,000 VOLTS OF LIGHT go screaming through my skull.. HOLY SH_T… I CANNOT see a thing.. I stagger around ...hands up in air trying to protect face.. stumble.. grrr.. I think my optic nerves are fried!!!!!… ARRRGG… I run back inside to tell Joe.. blink .. blink… OMG I think the light is a bit much… it BEAMS ALL THE WAY INTO THE cul-de-sac…!!! and its going to wake the neighbors… [even though they are like an acre away from us]…and yikees… And so he mumbles something about it only staying on for 10 or was that 30 seconds???? OH … yeah.. ok… back outside...
SAG WAGON
On Saturday… I was the sag wagon… Joe had to get his 18 mile run in… as did our friends Denise & Gary .. so with all good intentions I convinced them that 6:30 am on Saturday morning (amongst the monsoon of a tropical storm) would be a perfect time to meet up at a local park for the 18 miler… nice and flat… perhaps a bit moist but none the less flat.. I myself was on a taper for Chessy man… so I only had to run 8… so the thoughts were I would run out with them for 4, run back by myself 4..as they would continued on… I would get back to truck, hop on my MTB bike with a backpack full of bottled water and haul a-s to catch them.. thus provide sag support… Great stuff… right!??? Well…. when we woke on Saturday @ 5am… not only did I have double bags under my eyes the humidity was at 95%. …geez…. another swamp run! ….we scraped our tired butts out of bed and into the car.. meeting up with Denise and Gary… it was still kinda darkish and the gates for the park were still closed… didn’t t...
AND WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR FREE TIME?
This was my last big training weekend before Chessy Man.. it was what I consider my warrior weekend… where I condense my training into a few days to see how I will fair.. …. Friday night.. I prepped my body for a nice long swim.. after an hour and a half of pool bliss… I exited a bit moist, a bit tired.. AND A LOT OF BIT HUNGRY…..I sure hope I aint this hungry when I exit the Chessy Man swim.. .jeez… On Saturday we wake up early to get started on our long run and I cannot move my left arm and shoulder.. huh… I think I may have thrown it out swimming.. I ice it, Bengay it.. and hoped for the best.. 6am and off we go… 95% humidity...aha…I am sure LOVING THESE swamp runs… . 2 hours and 45 minutes later I put up the white flag….. ENOUGH… I ended up only doing 16 miles….. Joe proceeded to get in another mile.. covering a little over 17 miles…. My quads were toast..I am toast… I just want to lay down and die… DIE!>…… I promise Joe that since we had a long weekend, that Monday would be o...