laughinplace199
<font color=blue>AKA Shrimpo or Flamingo Legs<br><
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Hi Team!
Where is everybody?
Maria - How was the Star Wars party?
Jen B - It sounds like the ING half was a lot of fun! I hope your exam goes well!
Jeanne - I'm sorry that you lost your post w/pics. I'll have to go over to the EEC thread and read your post there. I'm glad you had fun doing EEC with your son!
Debra - Where are you? I miss my fellow cougar! (Why is there no cougar smilie? It would come in really handy around here.) 
Hello to Nancy, Mel, Jen, Kayci, and everyone else!
As for me, I ran 11 miles on Sat, which is my longest run to date. Although I'm trying not to obsess over speed, I noticed that I ran a little slower than usual. I'm not worrying about it though - I was just happy to complete the 11 miles. The last mile was a bit tough, but I did it. My next long run will be on Oct. 12, when I run my first half (which will also be my first race). I'm very nervous, but if I did 11, I can do 13.1 - I hope...
Where is everybody?
Maria - How was the Star Wars party?
Jen B - It sounds like the ING half was a lot of fun! I hope your exam goes well!
Jeanne - I'm sorry that you lost your post w/pics. I'll have to go over to the EEC thread and read your post there. I'm glad you had fun doing EEC with your son!
Debra - Where are you?
I miss my fellow cougar! (Why is there no cougar smilie? It would come in really handy around here.) Hello to Nancy, Mel, Jen, Kayci, and everyone else!
As for me, I ran 11 miles on Sat, which is my longest run to date. Although I'm trying not to obsess over speed, I noticed that I ran a little slower than usual. I'm not worrying about it though - I was just happy to complete the 11 miles. The last mile was a bit tough, but I did it. My next long run will be on Oct. 12, when I run my first half (which will also be my first race). I'm very nervous, but if I did 11, I can do 13.1 - I hope...
There are so many of us locally who this affects that I think whoever did the scheduling never checked the race calendar. I may enter the Houston Half half marathon in late October, I figure I can use it as a week where I fall back a bit after a couple weeks of increasing mileage (I never thought I'd ever be the one to say that about a half marathon!).
We had so much fun on our first race we got hooked, hope you had the same experience. I'd love to read a race report.
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We walked over to the registration tent and got our stuff. It was pretty cold - somewhere in the 40's. Between the cold and my nerves, the wait to start seemed pretty long. While we were waiting to cross the starting line, I really felt like I could throw up 
, but once we started moving, my nerves went away. Both DH & I had to hit the port-o-potty at mile 2. There was only one port-o-potty at each water stop, so the lines were pretty long. I'd say we waited a good 5 minutes here. It was really difficult watching everyone pass us by while we waited in line. Then, when we started moving again, we realized that were were pretty much the last ones (with the exception of the few people who were still in the port-o-potty line). That was kind of a discouraging feeling, but we decided to make the best of it. As we ran by the volunteers, we'd ask which way everyone went, or we'd ask if we were winning, just silly stuff like that. The volunteers seemed to get a kick out of our silliness, so that was fun. DH had warned me before and during the race to keep to my regular pace and not overdo it. It was hard to not speed up, but I listened to him (although I hate it when he's right 
I promise, I will enter our times for the past few weeks tonight, without fail.
