The alarm clock didn’t go off today, so I woke up an hour later than I thought I would. Had a quick breakfast – luckily I’d brought food – and were out of the hotel at seven. The race start wasn’t far away and we found it very quickly so I enough time to get my race packet, warm up and go to the bathroom.
It was an unusual warm and humid day for February, 73.4 °F / 23.0 °C, even at eight in the morning. The sun was out and it was windy. I knew it wouldn’t be an easy race, but I had a pacing strategy that was supposed to help me live all the way through the run.
I ended up with the second place in my age group, 9th overall female and had to pick between a yellow and a red bag as a prize. I took the yellow one and we walked around more in St. Petersburg, had an early lunch with my obligatory margarita and didn’t go on the dolphin cruise because the weather was getting worse and I was just so tired. Once we hit the Interstate the rain started pouring down on us and hardly ever stopped before we got home. I have to say though that I’m not quite certain about most of the trip because I fell asleep instantly.
Back at home we just watched a movie and my dad made a good simple pasta dinner.
Tonight Jon and I are going to Stephanie’s place for a bon fire, but I don’t think we’ll be staying all that long. The last week was very strenuous and even though I thought I’d got enough sleep it took a lot out of me working and running so hard.
After the long run tomorrow I’m looking forward to doing nothing at all for the rest of the day.
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