I took half a day off on Friday and drove up to New Braunfels to stay the night with my grandma. We went to eat at the Gristmill and I finally got to see Gruene! What a beautiful little area, I can't wait to go back & really explore it. After dinner, we put our swimsuits on & sat in the hot tub then the pool for awhile & got to have some girl talk & catch up. She woke me up about 6 on Saturday morning because I had to continue on to Irving :(
I-35 is NUTS! I took the toll road just outside of Austin but when it was time to get back on 35 I was miserable! I got to my friend's apartment in Euless (right outside of Irving) right about noon so we went to get our carb-load lunch on! Then we found a Lululemon store and bought some new running gear. I was so excited, I've never been to their store, only ordered online since there isn't one near me! Then we kept walking around window shopping for awhile, laid by the pool, hit up Super Target (that's dangerous!!) & picked up some sandwiches for dinner.
We both woke up at 4:30AM to make sure we had enough time to eat & digest & of course when we checked the radar there was a crazy storm that had appeared out of NOWHERE. Race start was 6:45 & it started raining right at 6:30.. they don't let you run if there's lightning so the start time was delayed to 7:45. We just hung out in the closest parking garage with basically every other runner that was present...
It rained pretty consistently the first 4 miles then slowly lightened up & eventually stopped by about mile 6. The course was out & back so when we got back around to about mile 10, the trail had completely flooded over for about 1/4 mile so had to trudge through that and finish strong w/ sopping wet shoes adding to the challenge ;)
The rain, fear of slipping, and heavy wet shoes slowed me up so I didn't reach my goal time but I am still happy with my performance overall! Me & Whit had packed bags with clean clothes with intentions of hanging around post-race but we were both so miserable wet & dirty that we just headed home to clean up!
We went to IHOP to grub then I wanted to see Ari since I'm never in Dallas so we met up at a cafe for my 2nd breakfast.. haha. I didn't leave downtown Dallas until 3:30pm!! Then I stopped in West for kolaches of course & stopped once more to pee along the way & with all the construction & pit stops, I was home by 10:45. Talk about exhausted! But it was so worth it; supporting Wounded Warrior Project and seeing 2 amazing friends.
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