Thursday, June 17, 2010

Race Weekend Part 1

Sorry for the delay! I still don't have my home puter and have to sneak my blogs in between working :) So here it goes, Race Weekend in San Diego. Woo Hoo!
  • Friday, 5 hr 30 min flight from LGA to SAN with TNT folks from NYC, Long Island and Connecticut Chapters. Learned that nationwide, TNT raised over $12 million for the event.
  • Landed, went to the hotel with Lorraine and Heather, dropped of our bags and headed to the convention center to pick up our race packet.
  • Bib #, d-tag, San Diego Rock & Roll t-shirt and goody-bag. Check.
  • Convention center madness. Free samples of shot blocks, shot rocks, cliff bars, power bars, gu, and anything else protein, sugar, power related you can think of.
  • Got suckered into buying a power balance band (http://www.powerbalance.com/). I figured if it was good enough for Lamar Odom and Shaq, it was good enough for me. More on that later.
  • Met up with Angela from SD. Turns out she is childhood friends with one of our NYC TNT coaches. Small world.
  • Lunch, last minute errands and sleep.
  • Rise and shine Saturday morning for a quick 20 minute group run and stretch.
  • Pool time and lunch with the girls.
  • 5pm pasta party with other TNT chapters. OMG. So inspirational and what a tear-jerker hearing stories of why others joined TNT.
  • Final team meeting to go over race day details with the coaches and more mission moments tear-jerker stories.
  • I learned that some of the kids that run in the 10:30 miler group actually have hearts on the inside. Even if they appear to be complete a-holes on the outside :)
  • Race day singlet decorating (Run Jen Run, Paws and Wings) and then off to bed.
  • Wait a minute. It's only 9pm and I have to go to sleeeeezzzzzp. Obviously not an issue for me.
  • Sunday: 3:15am alarm goes off. Time to eat a bagel, down some coconut water and poop.
  • I can't believe the race if finally here!
Part 2 coming tomorrow. Can't wait to share the race details! xoxo

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