Just Plodding Along

1) I am totally ready for a marathon (as long as there are 12 hours of down time including a good solid 8 hours of sleep in the middle of the race). Pizza helps too 2) When planning to run two races in a row picking the hilliest most difficult race possible is probably not the greatest idea. 3) If your hip hurts before you start running 26 miles in 2 days it will still hurt, maybe even more, when you are done and hills do not help. 4) Always, always have baby wipes with you for after a race. You never know when you will be stranded on the side of a road for awhile unable to shower and still wanting to remain friends with the people who have to ride in the same car with you. 5) True friends let you wear compression gear to breakfast and don't bat an eye. 6) They will also let you drag them to race expos and drive your tired ass home for seven hours afterwards. 7) That even when I am tired and sore I can still crank out 13.1 miles and have a great time doing it. ...

After hitting the expo on Saturday afternoon at the Santa Anita Race Track for the Pasadena 1/2  me and my race support crew friends headed to the hotel so I could shower and put my compression socks on the wrong feet. Once I hit the bed it was over there was no way I was going back out. The Palos Verdes 1/2 wore me out and I was a little worried about running the next day another 13.1. Wait the R is on the left foot....something seems off  Luckily J & B were understanding and just let me hang out in the room and stuff my face full of pizza.  After some more HGTV it was sleepy time at 9p.m. The alarm went off at 4:30 on Sunday (May 20th) after laying there for a bit cursing myself and gingerly moving my limbs I got up and changed for the race. The hotel we stayed at (Rodeway Inn) was only about a 5 minute drive from the start. I got there around 5a.m. for the 6:30 start. I wanted to get coffee but there was nothing on the way so I was forced to run witho...

Today I had a very productive day. I took a nap and then went and got a massage. Thanks Groupon for this screamin deal. Gotta say feelin pretty good. I also got around to packing. First I had to decide on my race outfits (feeling like the races are a go, even if it turns out to be a run/walk situation). Most important wardrobe of the weekend. Goals for Palos Verdes Half: Finish Goals for Pasadena Half: Finish I feel like a no pressure weekend is in order. My plan before I got sick was to run 8 miles on Sat. and 8 miles on Sun. to try to see how it feels to run a lot of miles back to back. Obviously that did not happen so I haven't run since Friday. I will be very well rested for these halves. My left hip is still kind of off so taking it easy is probably a good thing. Or maybe I can just run it into submission. We shall see. I also decided that my freezer had reached its limit of brown old frozen bananas. Banana muffins are needed. Ta da California Rocks Roa...

In a couple of weeks I have to be in the LA area, but only for a few hours........so I thought to myself that is too short to be in such a wonderful place I should stay for the weekend. What to do, what to do? I wonder if there are any half marathons going on that weekend. The answer is yes, yes there are. So I will be doing Palos Verdes on Saturday and Pasadena on Sunday. Half Marathon Double Header Weekend! and then I convinced some friends to come along and have titled the upcoming epic road trip the LA Rocks Road Trip (always good to title things). It is going to be awesome (as long as I remember to pack the compression gear).  #16 & #17 here I come. And then it will be break time until September. I just couldn't pass up the chance to run in such beautiful places.