Well after my last posting, I MADE IT!! Made the coveted Turkey Day 8k, a great race because, well it's free, a bunch of friends of mine run it, it ends at Rome night Club in beautiful downtown Spartanburg, oh yeah and if you rock the top 70 of your gender, you get socks! 32:15, haven't done that since college and well now sport some lovely Orange and Purple Turkey day 8k socks (of course Sherry hates them with a, well purple passion). Fast Forward two months to the Issac Dickson Hot Chocolate 10k in Asheville. I loved this race as well, very well organized, someone watches your bag while you run, and there is hot cocoa waiting when you finished. Only thing is when I signed up I didn't put 2 and 2 together and realize that Asheville in January isn't as tropical as the Upstate in January, so I put my manhood aside and purchased tights for the 17 degree run that awaited. I slacked the last month of training and after blazing a 5:56 first mile, the last .8 uphill got me and I was slapped with a 43:51 time, not bad, but not what I had hoped. But at the very least it did serve as a motivator for 2011 and the Reedy which comes up in March and is on the same course as the Spinx half-marathon I am going to do in October.
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