Ready or not I ran the CASA Half Marathon exactly 4 weeks after 3 Bridges. I love this race and truly believe it’s the fastest half marathon course in Arkansas. (At this point I think I’ve run most of them!) I’ve worked this race into my schedule every year since 2013. CASA was originally scheduled for December but bad weather
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