• Fitness,  Race Re-Cap,  Races,  Running,  Travel

    Marine Corps Marathon 2014 Race Recap

    Sunday morning Meg and I got up at 5:45. Our plan was to leave the hotel by 6:30 and get on the Metro because both of our races began at 7:55am. The marathon start was located at the Pentagon metro stop and the 10K start was a bit further at the Smithsonian metro stop. We got on the crowded metro with a ton of other runners. The ride to my stop was about 15 minutes–there was so much excitement in the air! When we arrived at the Pentagon, I said my goodbyes to Meg and wished her luck on her race! Myself and the other marathon runners got off the…

  • Fitness,  marathon,  Marathon Training,  Race Re-Cap,  Races,  Running,  Travel

    Marine Corps Marathon 2014 Part 1

    Friday afternoon after class I flew to DC with my friend Meg for the Marine Corps Marathon. Meg had originally planned to run the marathon with me as her first (she got in via the lottery) but got injured over the summer and couldn’t run the full marathon, so she opted to run the 10K instead. We were ready for a fun race weekend in DC! Saturday morning after an awesome breakfast buffet at our hotel in Alexandria, we rode the metro to the race expo in DC. Our metro stop was right across from our hotel and that was magnificent. There was a huge line to get into the…

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    A Marathon in 2014

    Ever since I ran my second marathon, the Vermont City Marathon last year, I’ve been thinking about which race will be my next marathon. Originally I had hoped to run the Rock n Roll Seattle Marathon, but those plans fell through, unfortunately. A few weeks ago, I got to see my friend Meg. She and I had run the Diva’s half marathon back in 2011. She had been wanting to run a full marathon for a while, and told me she wanted to run the 2014 Marine Corps Marathon in Washington, DC. Well, that had me sold. As one of the largest marathons in country, the MCM is on my…