Well, I survived my half marathon. It was a beautiful running route, perfect weather (mostly sunny, 60 degrees F, light wind), with lots of water stops (bottled mineral water, poured into recyclable cups), and I finished…just really slowly. I guess not tapering–running 18 miles the Sunday before–was not a good strategy for having a speedy race. But I felt good afterwards, I could have kept going, so there may be hope that I can finish the marathon in a little more than a month.
It is getting cooler here. It has barely hit 60 all week as a high, and it is down in the 40s at night. Unfortunately, the heat is not on yet in the apartment building so things like showering are a bit like working at summer camp in the mountains of Washington again. Not to mention, the power in the bathroom was off one night this week so I had to use a flashlight to use the facilities; this was exactly like summer camp. Anyway, this weekend I will trade out the gloves and hats and sweaters from storage in the suitcase and put my bikinis and sundresses away. Sad.
