Chips and Salsa Race Recap

Half Marathon

The Bling

The Good

• Weather - Perfect for running started around 55 ended somewhere in the 60s
• Race Course - I loved the fact that we didn't just run along the bosque trail that can get boring, this went in and out of neighborhoods and kept me distracted!
• Friends - Got to see a lot of great running buddies at this race
• Kind of a PR  - If you go by my Garmin time I PRd barely by like 15-25 seconds but I'll take it 2:04!  The last half I did was at sea level so running it in almost the same time at a mile high tells me my training is working and I feel good!  See point below about official times.

The Bad

• The cyclist and volunteers took people in the wrong direction.  The main problem with this was that not everyone went off track by the same distance.  For example, my friend who is way faster and started towards the front of the pack ran about .75 mi over, I who started near the middle of the pack ran about .50 mi over and so on.  For me not that big of a deal other than I had hit the wall at mile 11 and that half mile hurt :-)  But for those fast people there was reward money and it could have messed them up.
• Race director decided to just take a few minutes off every one's results.  I say leave the times alone and just apologize.
• The first 2 or 3 aid stations were not set up and that may not seem like a big deal but I did see some people trying to get water that early on.
• My stomach could not handle chips and salsa after this race because I was pukey from trying to drink straight Gatorade while on the course (must water it down) but I LOVE chips and salsa maybe just send us home with a bottle instead :-)

The After

Finished that days workout with 30 miles on the spinner and left my legs completely trashed!  Great weekend of workouts!  Getting excited for my Ironman!


I think I've decided what I want my next goal to be after I finish the IM in November.  I want to break the 2 hour mark on the half.....Maybe 2013 will be the year of the half marathon?  Unless I get carried away with triathlons again :-)

What's Up?

Hi! Did you miss me? No, not really? Well, too bad cause I'm back anyway! I have a lot of catching up to do but here is just a glimpse in photos of what I've been up to. I've been spending a lot of time catching up and making up for lost time with this guy:

 Hanging out around town:

 Scouting new sights:

Teaching this one how to play tether ball:

Practicing for my rappel on Friday:

 Oh yeah and still training for my Ironman!!!  Only 9 more weeks left!  I did a half marathon this Sunday as part of my training.  I'll do a race recap soon!  Are you loving this fall weather for training?  I am!

Personal Trainer jokes never get old!

A little video to hold you over til I'm back to regular posts...Haaa! I use to be accused of this when I was a personal trainer!?! Oh how I miss those days! :-) I'll be back soon I promise. What's your favorite gym move?

Happy Anniversary to us!

I have been a little absent from here lately but I have a good excuse.  Also it doesn't mean I've been absent from my workouts I'm managing to keep those up!  Now that hubs is back we took a little bit of time off to enjoy a nice long weekend at home with each other and to celebrate our 1 yr. anniversary.  We were only together about a month out of our first year of marriage so that was weird, but we were together for two years before that and now FOREVER after, ahhhhh, no really we are so happy to be back together! :-)

What did we do to celebrate you ask?  Well look who got a brand new road bike and has decided to start riding!?!!?

We went for a 30 mile ride along the bosque on our anniversary.  We both have Trek bikes and I promise I didn't try to persuade him, even though I love my bike.  He did not get a tri bike just a road bike because he claims he's not going to do triathlons, but we'll see how long it takes for him to come to the dark side!  Of course we also went to a very nice dinner that night we can act like normal people some times....

We are bummed because he had planned a big surprise for us to go sky diving for our anniversary then when he called to confirm the class location the guy forgot he had been working with him on this and said they were closed and there would be no jumps going on this weekend!!!! That is the only place in NM that does sky diving and can you blame us if we don't want to use them now?  So it looks like that adventure will have to wait for another day and another city.  Maybe in AZ after the IM?

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Stay tuned prize pack giveaway coming up soon!  Hope you are all enjoying your Labor Day weekend!  I had some awesome workouts and am loving the extra time off!

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