9/22/2013

So half my reason for going to Adelaide this weekend was to run a race. When my alarm went off at 5:40 I almost skipped the race and went back to bed. I got up and ready just in time to miss the train and have to catch a cab to the start line. The 300 person race was 56km up and down a mountain. No really it was quite hilly. Very fun though and absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. I started out strong and was enjoying the race for the first several kilometres. It was an ultra marathon on a trail but I decided to wear my 5 fingers. I had a bit of trouble with sticks and rocks when I poked myself but nothing too bad. It was totally worth all of the conversations that I got out of them. I ran almost the entire race with my friend Damien who had talked me into doing this race just 3 weeks ago. There were a few places that he got ahead of me but he waited at the next rest stop. He ran a bit slower than he could have and I ran a bit faster than I would have so in total it was 8 hours and 13 minutes of entertainment. I finished in the top half of the participants and 30th female overall. Not bad for minimal training. We got after race ice cream(rum raisin of course) and I hopped on a plane back home for work tomorrow. What an incredible day.