As luck would have it my favorite half marathon in Arkansas and my goal marathon were scheduled one week apart. I know most people would forego the half and focus on the marathon. I might have agreed but the CASA Half Marathon was the 20th and final race on the Grand Prix series schedule so as far as I was
That’s right. I broke all the rules of reason and raced a half marathon and a marathon one week apart. I feel like I owe an explanation but if you know me at all you probably don’t need one. I will say that the first race- the half marathon was on my racing calendar all year and was a goal
The last few weeks have been a blur of Christmas parties, activities, work, shopping, baking and RACING! Ordinarily I consider myself fairly organized but right now I am just taking it day by day. I would love to write a more lengthy race report but if I do it might never happen. (If you recall I’m still short two 10K
So what do you do when your marathon is cancelled? As I mentioned in my last post– you register for some more races! Besides finding a replacement marathon I also decided to throw in a half marathon as a tune-up race since it worked out timing -wise. Last year was the first time I’d ever heard of this race but