What a wonderful weekend! I was able to chalk up my 3rd marathon win this year and a new personal best for 2013. It was all the more fun to be able to experience that with family and friends. Where to start the recap? Perhaps with, well, the race? Okay, because you asked so nicely…
There will be a long post in the next couple of days… but until then…a few pictures and results 🙂 Team Nichole showed up in full force, including my parents! My brother and husband also did the marathon (their first!). I finished in 2:50 something. Good enough to win the race, but I really would…
Ready to go! We arrived in Fargo at 11:30pm on Thursday, deciding to make the 4 hour drive two days before hand vs. on Friday. Great decision. The elite coordinator was SO nice about our arrival time. I called him to let him know how late it was going to be and he paused for…
Nate is signed up to race Fargo this year. He held out on the marathon distance, but the combination of having to answer the question “Have you run a marathon” with “no”, (answer really was: well, I have run the marathon distance as a training run for skiing, but no, not technically… which is WAAAY…
The 2009 Fargo Marathon was such great race for me! I woke up 2:15 to race time, quickly dressed, and headed down to the hotel’s continental breakfast. It’s pretty cool to see so many runners congregated in one spot :). Breakfast was great, and I think I ate exactly what I needed: 2 packets of…