Races
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The Stockade-athon 15K
Another Sunday, another race in the books and another race bib to add the collection! This morning Chris and I got up bright and early to go pick up Heather. Heather was supposed to run the 15K with us, but she fell and got injured a few weeks ago, so she stayed on the sidelines and spectated for us! 🙂 Thanks for the support Heather, you’re amazing! (Heather was also my personal photographer on the course!) Love her awesome sign?? I do! 🙂 Anyway, the race started at 9AM sharp, and it was COLD. We waited around at the start for about 30 minutes and tried to get warm by…
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Why I Run Races
I can’t believe there are only two more months in the year 2010. But I figured now would be a good time to write about my year in running races. I’ve accomplished much more this year than I’d ever thought possible. It was probably earlier in the year, maybe around March or April, where I’d realized I had a desire to run a half marathon. I don’t remember what exactly prompted me, but I think a large part of it was due to my discovery of the Healthy Living Blog community. After reading numerous food and fitness blogs, some of which talked about running races, which were written by women like…
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Squirrelly Six Mile Trail Race
Happy Halloween! Today I did one of the most fun things I could think of on Halloween day...run my first trail race!! The Albany Running Exchange puts on this Halloween themed race: The Hairy Gorilla Half Marathon and Squirrelly Six Mile Trail Races at Thacher State Park in Voorheesville. It was AWESOME!!! All of the runners were dressed up, and they had some of the course even decorated for Halloween! There were even live gorillas hiding in the trees… I, of course, was running the six mile, another half marathon is way too soon for me! I also dressed up as a bumble bee. 😉 I got there at about…
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Mohawk Hudson River Half Marathon
The day finally arrived! Today, 10.10.10, was the day I ran my first half marathon! I woke up super early this morning at 5:45AM to eat breakfast, which was two whole grain waffles topped with almond butter and cherry butter. These held me over pretty well. I got dropped off at the start at 7:30AM. Despite the photo, I was FREEZING. It was like 35 degrees this morning, no lie. I had worn an oversized sweatshirt to throw away once I got warmed up, but I took it off for the picture! 😉 After waiting around and freezing my butt off, the race finally started at 8:30AM sharp. And off…
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Five Running Gadgets I Can’t Live Without
Everyone serious about running, or any other sport for that matter, has a couple of items they absolutely cannot do without! These are my top five: 1. My iPod. I’ve been running with my three year old iPod since I started running 2+ years ago, and lately it’s been getting wonky on my longer runs (running over an hour), so I recently purchased an iPod shuffle! It’s been great (besides the fact that it wasn’t compatible with my four year old Macbook, but that’s a complaint for another time). Fortunately I got it synced up to my parents’ laptop that has Windows 7 and it works perfectly. I wore it…
