Working Hard

Here's a picture of me working hard at the 1/2 marathon last weekend in Nashville. It was way more fun than I expected (despite the all-business snapshot). It was hard not to run with all those people along the road cheering and yelling for everyone as they ran by! Not to mention all of the live music along the route (several people stopped running just to boogie to their favorite song). I thought I was in trouble a few times before we even started. I had planned to meet my friends at specific spot before the start time, but I waited and waited and soon they were telling us to go to our corral. Right about this time I also started to panic because I realized I had jumped out of the car and forgot my iPod (right there in my purse, on the floor of Chris's car, all charged up and ready with some new music!). I borrowed someone's phone and told Chris to meet me with it at one of the places we had predetermined that he'd be. I went to my corral to start the race and was looking around frantically for Julie and Hannah. I almost asked this really tall guy if he'd be willing to help me look for them (I was thinking he could yell for them or let me on his shoulders!). As we approached the start line, and I'm mentally preparing myself to run "solo" (me and 32,000 other people), I spotted them and made a b-line straight for them. We rejoiced and started the run. My time was 2 hours and 28 minutes. I'm happy with it. We'll see what happens next year (wink wink).