Team Gey 5k

It was kinda chilly and MC and I had been kinda sick, not trained, and enjoyed ourselves the night before so we took it pretty easy. It was for a good cause and was fun and we actually walked most of the time, but I figured I would throw it on here anyhoo. Hopefully we'll be a little more prepared next year :-)

~45:00

MC - ~45:00

I Run For The Party - Halloween 5k

Nice and cool evening race in Nashville. It was MC's first race, and she picked a good one! Almost everyone was in costume so it livened things up a bit and made for some more interesting scenery. I stayed with MC the whole race and mom and lauren ran ahead a little bit. We definitely were out to "run for the party" and weren't going for a snazzy time. MC did awesome for her first race and we all had a lot of fun! I'm going to go ahead and log our chip time, even though we could probably subtract 20 seconds since it took about that long to actually cross the start line because of the crowd.

35:08

MC - 35:07

Mom - 33:20

Lauren - 32:26

Eastman Road Race - 3k

While I was home for Matt's Bachelor Party, mom and I decided it would be fun to try to throw in a race. Matt and his friend Dan actually joined us as well, which was fun. Considering I had a bit of a rough night the night before and haven't been running, I was actually pretty pleased with how well we did. Hopefully we can coordinate some more races soon!!

17:49

Mom - 17:48

Muddy Buddy

Cool race that Michelle heard about and thought I would be interested in. We were gonna do the one in Orlando, but it sold out so we did the one in Atlanta. Not sure exactly how long the Atlanta course was, but it was 6-7 miles with 4 obstacles and a mud pit at the end. I started biking so I did 3 legs of biking and two of running while Keith did 3 running and 2 biking. It was a pretty hilly course, and it was rainy so it was a little slicker than normal, but it was a lot of fun. Definitely need to train a little harder if I'm going to do it again though, haha. Obstacles were a balance beam, over-under, 6 foot climbing wall, 15 foot rope mesh with slide, then of course the mud pit at the end. Finished 16th out of 50 teams so overall we were pretty happy with our results. Keith only had to wait for me a little at the very end so I was pretty stoked about that. Definitely would like to look into doing it again some time.

42:20.8

Tails and Trails 5k+

Mom was in town so we got to actually run a race together. Haven't been able to run many together so it was nice to get to do one. This was mostly a trail run, which was pretty cool. Got stuck behind some people a couple times, but it probably helped us pace better. Weather was pretty nice too. The last section of the race was a brutal uphill, but I heard that the + made it around 3.5 miles so considering, our time was actually pretty good.

32:22

Mom - 32:35

Jingle Bell Run

Yep, that's right. Two races in one day! I know I'm crazy, but oh well. Bopper and Matt and Turtle ran it too and Lindsey was thinking about it so there were going to be some non-runners that I figured I would just chill with and take it easy given my morning. Well I pretty much lost all three of them right off the bat because it was so frickin' crowded. So once I could, I picked up the pace a little to try to at least catch Bopper, but I apparently missed her at some point. Ended up actually setting a PR! That's two in one day! hahaha. I didn't get everyone else's times so I'll just post mine for this one. I actually coulda dropped probably another 30 seconds since I got bogged down at the beginning. Maybe I'll try to be more in the front next year. ;-)

16:17 (PR)

Gulf Winds Track Club 5 mile race and 10 mile challenge

Beautiful morning for a run. Weather was just about perfect. I did the 5 mile (8 kilometer) race. The course was definitively rolling hills. I don't think there was a single flat section in the entire race. It was an out and back route and overheard that the back was more uphill than the out. AWESOME! Definitely a challenging course and I went out a little harder than I meant to, but I set a PR so I was pretty stoked!

45:55 (PR)