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So what is the St.Michaels Running Festival?

It is a charming race-place in one of the oldest waterfront towns on the Chesapeake Bay..  It has shops along main street – but most importantly: 3 day military diet

It has the flattest, fastest USATF half marathon in the region!!!!!

Since its early, and you may have not had your coffee yet – this means PRs for everyone!!! (OR at least really good odds of getting one!) Read more ›

The title is the week.. I have been a hot-mess all week.  Tuesday was supposed to be a five mile run – but turned into 3 as the cold & humidity made me unable to breathe.  My morning running partners – Zully and Suzanne were super understanding (or happy to run a shorter distance) and made sure I didn’t collapse on the way back.

Thursday I had to start by warning them that my hernia (lucky me, I still have an inguinal hernia) was bothering me – so I wasn’t sure if I was even going to make it to the first building before turning back – but I did!  I actually finished the run with no problems.

Zully and Tim were meeting this morning at six am to do ten miles.. I don’t do  6 am on Saturdays.  Suzanne (who apparently doesn’t do six on Saturdays either) agreed to meet at 6:45, and do the second part of their ten mile loop.  The plan was that we would do another loop to get our ten.

The run went well, but we decided to NOT do the second loop. Some blisters on my feet, humidity – all contributed to bailing. Though I think it was a good call.

After 24 hours of healing!

Today’s schedule was to meet a buddy for a 5 miler, then 2 with the kids but a problem arose.

I didn’t choose my clothing very wisely yesterday and had a pair of old-school (literally old-school- I’ve had these shorts for 15 or 20 years) cotton shorts to run in.  They not only rode up on one leg, but proceeded to rub…  as other runners know (or will at some point) rubbing leads to chaffing, and chaffing leads to pain.

So…

Rest day.

Thursday (and Tuesday) mornings mean 5 at 5!!!  At 5 Am, over on the Crofton parkway a random group of Crofton-area runners meet up and do a five mile loop.   Around the parkway, with Eaton added in to make it 5 instead of 3.  (This is necessary, because i am not doing 3 at 3.  I’m asleep at 3.  Not like that Crazy Go Believe Conquer blogger who did 10 at 3.)

Usually Tim is able to join us,but he had a “thing” last night that kept him out late, so it was Zully and myself joined by Suzanne, the controller where I work.  I don’t know if there was an alpha-female thing going on – but our normal 9:15-9:45 pace was shot-down!  We had a couple of miles in the 8 minute range,and the rest were very low 9’s!

They did deny this when I mentioned it…

No pictures today.. Just  a quick update!