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Bank of America Gasparilla Half-Marathon - Run


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Tampa Bay, Florida
United States
Bank of America
Total Time = 2h 42m 3s
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Pre-race routine:

Coffee. Goofiness. Bitching about the weather. Removing "no parking" signs for my convenience.
Event warmup:

Talk to shirtless hot guy's friend about why he never asked me for my phone number. Say hi to YMCA girl. Stand around comparing heart rates with Chippy and Dumpster. Admire eye candy.
Run
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  • 13.1 miles
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Comments:

Started out with Chippy and we both had high heart rates for the first 2 miles or so. We couldn't figure out if our signals were crossing or what. Avoided dead possum, yelled and Rick and Trixie.
I had to pee as soon as we started, so we stopped at the porta potties and Max, Renee, Rich, and Lane caught up to us. Lane decided to run with us - woohoo!! Then we started talking about people, about BT, about our lives, about the weather, about the other runners. Saw my friend Rachel and gave her a hug. Yelled for any locals I saw on the course. All the girls wanted Lane and he knew it.
Chippy kept leaving us in the dust at the walk breaks...it was embarrassing. And every time we saw a dog she got all excited. We got rained on but we didn't care. We were slow but we didn't care. It was windy but we didn't care.
We saw Renee and Max again, saw Jeff twice, saw Rick and Trixie 2 more time, I think. Saw Mike and Jean 2 or 3 times. Saw Wendi once, I think. Saw Jeff kicking butt 2 times. Saw Brian and got our pics taken. I yelled for everyone - I like to yell. :)
And thank god for the vaseline at the aid stations!!!!!!!!!!
What would you do differently?:

Nothing.
Post race
Warm down:

Eat and freaking pass out.

Event comments:

Haley and Aaron deserve major props for standing outside ALL DAY being the best jock straps EVER!!!




Last updated: 2005-12-07 12:00 AM
Running
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Overall: 0/
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Physical exertion [1-5]
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2006-02-27 9:28 PM

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2006-02-27 9:32 PM
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Thats the shortest RR of them all!

Thank goodness. There are too many now.

2006-02-27 9:35 PM
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Yeah but it's still fun reading 'em.  It was fun to meet you and glad you were there.  So much BT eye candy that my retinas will be burned for 2 weeks! 

 

2006-02-27 9:40 PM
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Yeah, but I was lucky enough to run with the two hottest pieces of eye candy on that whole damn course!!!

Thanks for letting me tag along Jess! 

 

2006-02-27 9:53 PM
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Great race Jess!!   It was an awesome weekend!!

 

2006-02-27 9:59 PM
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Awesome job, I think your pre race meal of tomatos and sour cream helped


2006-02-28 7:07 AM
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Master
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Dude, she wants you.

The skirt mafia kicked some *** is all I really have to say

2006-02-28 7:21 AM
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great run Jess...It was nice to keep running into you guys always helps to know others running in the race...It was funny for a long time we kept almost catching you guys and then boom you were gone again....it helped with the head games...

 

 

2006-02-28 8:45 AM
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What a GREAT weekend! Bummer I missed you at the finish but I have this comical image of you flopped on the bed, just passed out from an overdose of funfunfun!
2006-02-28 9:16 AM
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OH NO!  A Dead Possum??  How very sad. I wonder if it was my cousin. I wonder if your sadness at the loss of such a fine rodent caused you to slow down. I wonder if there will ever be such a nutty and fun filled weekend. I wonder if I should admit that even I want Lane.

way to go jess! 

2006-02-28 9:51 AM
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Great race and it was nice meeting you at breakfast. Don't worry about IMAZ you will do just fine and have a ton of fun.


2006-02-28 9:59 AM
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Nice race, ms. thang.  What were y'all doing with the vaseline, again?!!

And it was awesome catching up with you finally in person. 

2006-02-28 10:06 AM
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Hey Jess, I'm glad you guys had so much fun! It was great to meet you at the finish line - too bad it was so cold we couldn't have stayed longer.
2006-03-01 9:55 AM
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Nice run Jessica...
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