Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Mayor's

This picture showed up in my inbox this morning. It is the official registration request from the organizers of the Mayor's Marathon. I ran the 1/2 marathon last year therefore qualify to register early.

I got nauseated just looking at the picture.

Mayor's was the absolute worst experience of my short racing career. I became violently ill at mile 8. Unfortunately, mile 8 is located in the middle of the coastal trail. There is no where to go but forward.

I lack the appropriate adjectives to describe the final 5 miles.

I'm torn between registereing just to "show 'em what I really got", and leaving town that weekend.

6 comments:

Jaime said...

You can do it, you have amazing willpower! Were you able to get on our blog? Unfortunately when you change to private it doesn't show on your blog list when I last updated. Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas, we'll miss you!!

High Heels and a Sippy Cup said...

Oh the joy of showing em' whatcha got! Now that you've got a full marathon under your belt I think you can kick that half marathon's booty! Come on,lady! Ya know ya wanna! *wink*

Brad said...

Leave town. It's nice out here.

Vinci, Michelle and Owen Filio said...

u can do it! the worst part is the gravel area which is like forever long! Training only in Chicago where it's flat didnt prepare me well in Alaska....but it was still quite an experience.....

plus...the missionaries are all over the place to cheer you on and provide water......

YOU can do it!

Melinda H. said...

I got the same email and am having the same dillema. It is a hard run, but my goal is to run it every year. So just do it!

JeromeRoss said...

Kristi,

you are that much more ready for it this time around!