Finally, after months of training, it was here. My first big race. The Tower of Terror 10 Miler. My stomach was doing somersaults - nerves and excitement and some more nerves. Mr PugRunner and K were going to drop A and me off at Wide World of Sports to catch the shuttle to the staging ...
race report: tower of terror 10 miler
tower of terror 10 miler: happy haunted 5k trail run & kids’ race
The alarm rang entirely too early on Saturday morning. I popped up at about 4:40 AM, after getting a whopping three hours of sleep. Clearly, a nap would be in order. We showered and dressed, and Mr PugRunner double checked to make sure he had everything he would need for the morning. We hopped ...
tower of terror 10 miler: expo & checking in
So, Friday was the big day. The day we packed up the car with all our things and headed to Orlando for our big race weekend. The drive was mostly uneventful. We got stuck in a little bit of rush hour traffic, but it wasn't too horrible, and before long, we were pulling into the Wide World of ...
who do i run for?
Actually, that should probably be "for whom do I run?" Those dangling participles are always so irritating. But that's not the point. The point is, something pretty awesome happened, to give even more meaning to my running. I've told the story of what got me started on this running journey, ...
october goals
As I mentioned yesterday, the year is flying by. And while I'm not quite flying with it, I'm getting closer and closer every day. I had some pretty lofty goals for the month. Let's see how that worked out for me. 1. Log 65 miles. Check out September's total. Whoomp. There it ...
weekly recap: 9.22-9.28
This week was better. Much better. I was still dragging a little bit, due to not feeling great, which was exacerbated by absolutely miserable, rainy weather, but I sucked it up. After all, rain is just water. At some point, I imagine I'm going to have to contend with wet race weather, so there's ...