Mine has been pretty uneventful, I've been working on a very tedious painting for my 2d design class....if I have to stare at values and acrylic pain anymore, I think I'm going to scream.
The use of the word 'pain' here was clearly not intended, but oh so appropriate!
Kat--sounds like you got fitted properly--good! A good running store will always let your return them if you take a couple of runs and they don't work out. And yes, you pretty much always go up half a size. In my case, my running shoes are a full size bigger (and I still am almost losing a toenail!).
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Running in the rain...been there, done that. I don't mind it actually. There have been more then a few times when I was 4 + miles away from home and it start to POUR (not just drizzle), so I am used to it. It only really bothers me once it gets to the point of where my feet are soaked through and through. But we are in the 40s these days, which I consider perfect running weather.
I was already a half size up, so now I am a full size up.
I hate cold rain. I hate walking to my car in cold rain, so an hour or two in it is pure misery.
Did I mention I am a wus?
so. Does anyone here want to tell Jo about me and peeing while running? 
OMG. I'm a hot mess. Let's just say I pee....frequently.
I'm not surprised to hear that they recommended you size up. That's pretty common. Good to know you can give 'em a nice indoor test run and return if necessary. I hope they are like running on clouds! 
Thanks!!
on the hot peeing mess.
I rarely if ever need to go on the course or in a training run, thankfully. Once before the start is usually enough.
However, I just can't drink much water or it makes me ill.
So, City of Oaks. Let's just say that I would think hard before doing the half, and I would NEVER do the full after watching it go by for 5.5 hours. I was between miles 10 and 11 for the half, and 23 and 24 for the full.
There were only about 2K doing the half and maybe 1K doing the full, and it was pretty obvious most of the halfers were in the 1:30-2:30 finishing group. The front runner marathoners were thick in with the 2:45-3:30 group.
The marathoners had a strict 6:00 finishing limit, and the cop cars were literally steps behind the last three. I swear, in the last 20 min I stood there, people were going by me at a rate of 1-2 every 3-4 minutes, and almost all were completely solo, running down an empty street alone. No thanks.
Being a course monitor was... interesting. It was COLD for my taste (30 at the start), so I was layered like crazy. I would describe it as cold and lonely, at least for this race as it was crazy unpopulated, and very few spectators around my area. This area is right off of NC State's campus and is usually pretty busy, but it was *deserted*. Eerie, almost.
I was lucky in that I didn't really have any rude people, only one or two and none were outright belligerent, and there were such large gaps between runners from 10-1 (when I saw the most cars) that I could let people cross the street to get out.
The worst part was between 7:30-9:30 when the circle was closed and people who were at my intersection literally had no way out. I had one crying mom that I pawned off on the cop at the next intersection, and then one crabby lady that I let cross the street telling her there was a way out (I had no idea at that time whether this was true or not!).
Next weekend, OBX!
So proud of you!!!
