Run, Craft, Bake: Race Catch Up.....PART 1

Ok - it's been awhile, and I really have no good excuse.

Probably because there just isn't enough time in the day.

There are probably a million other things I could be doing right now, but instead I'm going to sit here on my couch, enjoying the rainy weather outside and try to catch up on stuff.

So here it goes -

Wicked 10K

I came back from the Rock-n-Roll Philly Half without much running going on.

I can honestly say - I don't think I ran at all. Maybe a few miles here and there but nothing major.

So the next race that was on the list was the Wicked 10k.

I've done the Wicked for the last two years and while the weather has been pretty awful for those, the weather for this one was perfect.

It was another Gineff & Liz run. (Yeah for running buddies!)

It was going to be our "long" run before Disney's Wine & Dine! Apparently in our world 6.2mi is an appropriate long run for a half marathon - with little to no training! We're rebels like that!! HAHAHA!!

So we stuck to our normal 3:1 intervals and did amazing.

I was proud of Gineff since she hasn't run in a while.

The last mile and a half, I thought we stood a shot at breaking our PR from the Chikfila 10k in May.

When we crossed the finish we were both super happy!!

It was a beautiful day (a little breezy) but gorgeous.

And they had moved the after-party back to the beach!

So we grabbed our gear bags, did a quick change into flip flops and new shirts, and headed to the food and beer line. We first opted for the food line since that was the shortest. It also gave us a chance to refuel while we were waiting in line for beer. We grabbed our two beers and settled into some sand for a little people watching. The costumes were awesome! I'll be honest - my costuming was non-exsistent. It was one of those - your lucky I showed up races.

While I love the fact that there were so many different costumes, it just wasn't something that I had the time to worry about or come up with. It's hard enough some days just to run - let alone run holding onto a styrafoam piece to make me a part of the Yellow Submarine - nope just not in me!

Overall - we had a great time! And when I finally did have the time to look at our chip time - we were only about a minute and 45 secs off of our PR time. For not having not trained or put in any real big mileage, I'll take it!

Our next big race was the Wine & Dine in Disney. I can't wait to write about that and share all the awesome pics from the weekend. It was absolutely amazing and I wish I could go back and run a race at Disney every month.
But till next time....here are my Wicked 10k pics!