Next week officially starts my "running tour." I am excited because I get to run with my friend Ashley in Richmond for the Color Run! I can't wait to post pictures of that because it seems like it will be awesome. After that, I take a week off and just do a walk for FAAN, the Food Allergy and Anaphalaxis Network. I have to walk for "my people," those with food allergies. For those of you that don't know, I suffer from a lot of severe food allergies and I have to be very careful about cross contamination or possibly consuming a food that I am allergic to. So I have taken up the cause of FAAN and I am trying (unsuccessfully I might add) to raise money for this organization. Once I finish with the walk I am off a week before I travel for my dueling half marathon week.
In October, I will run two half marathons in 6 days. I really haven't been training all that much. I did about a 5 mile run/walk last week and I am getting ready to go out and try to do 7-8miles shortly. I figured that if I can just get through the two halves that I can start my marathon training at 13 miles. After all, if I can do that twice in one week then I should have no problem doing it again in training. That should leave me plenty of time to get to the full 26.2 distance. Admittedly, I had a mini panic attack when I logged on to the Shamrock Marathon website and realized I only had 186 days left to train. That's 6 months, but still...
So October 6th its off to NY with my really good friend Annie and her crew for the Diva's Half (Happy Birthday to me :-D) and then running in Baltimore for the Half on the 13th. A week off then running in the Headless Horseman. I have two turkey trots, one the week before and one the day of Thanksgiving. Then, the Santa 5k in Frederick on Dec. 15th. I am thinking I might do the Jingle Bell Jog this year so I might throw that one in there.
For 2013, I am trying to decide on some races. After my marathon, I think that will be it for the extreme long distance running. I will have achieved what I set out to do, which is to complete a marathon by the time I am 30. But, I am going to focus on pushing myself to stay in shape by running the half marathons. To me, those races aren't that bad and the training effort is not as strict. My husband and I talked about traveling to Atlantic
City for the April Fool's Half Marathon. The medals are awesome and the shirts look cool too and I really want to race on the Boardwalk. I definitely liked the Iron Girl and my husband wants to do the Frederick Half Marathon, so I am probably signing up for those as well. And of course, I will do my standard 5k races like the cupcake run, bear crawl, and the wild woman (I hope they have it again this year!). After all of the half marathons, I think my new goal will be to run around the entire track without walking at Pimilico. I never thought Pimilico would be my achilles heel or my arch nemesis, but despite how much fun it is that track really wears you down!
Well, there it is my race ramblings. Still looking for good or unique races on the East Coast that aren't difficult to travel to. The search continues...
Well getting ready to lace of my sneakers and run for a bit. Until next time, happy running!
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