My niece dropped me off at the hospital where I was born and I walked the first 15 minutes of the run. With being sick last week and not getting enough sleep last night, I knew I was in for a long day. So I started running 1 minute and walking 2. It was always running past the major points in my life - my first job (gas station - age 11), the drug store where my sister bought me candy, the restaurant where I ate as a kid that had the best onion rings, my elementary school, etc) and I felt pretty good. At mile 7 - I really started to get tired. There were 30 mile gusts that were for the most part pushing me forward - but hen they switched direction - they blew me all over the place. I started eating gus after running for an hour and probably should have done a better job of eating more. It's hard when your doing your own race to stay hydrated/well fed, and I need to do a better job of paying attention to my nutrition - especially with my half coming up.

I felt pretty good on the run - lots of energy - but I wasn't really running all that fast - I averaged 13.5 miles an hour. However - if I'm really gonna get faster - I need to lose my extra bleeping weight.

A friend met up with me at the 11 mile point and we ran through Cleveland's Metroparks to get back to his car. I felt really strong towards the end - and could have gone further.

Not much. Considering where I was a month ago - I feel like a trained pretty well.

I want to make this a yearly thing - might be fun to be able to do this every year on my birthday.

Beer and wings - does it get any better.


Fatness - lvel of training


I did a damn fine job of organizing this race :)